Oil Bubble Is Good for U.S. Manufacturing
The rising oil production from North Dakota’s Bakken Formation now equals that of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay for the first time, according to the Wall Street Journal, due to technological breakthroughs such...
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Big Losses for Taxpayers as Another Green Company Turns Rotten
Beacon Power, the beneficiary of the endless flow of taxpayer guarantees emanating from the Department of Energy, went into bankruptcy in just over two years, leaving lawyers from the Justice Department...
United Mine Workers Assn: EPA Shot Us in Washington
United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts (left) recently blasted the actions of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who has proposed new stringent standards on coal-based generating units, declaring, “The Navy...
Joe Biden Blames Republicans for Blocking Renewable Energy Programs
As the issue of rising gas prices dominates Obama’s current standing among the public, the White House is scrambling to broadcast the President’s purported dedication to U.S. energy independence. And one...
$7, $8 Gas? Sen. Paul Tries to Blunt Bill That Would Push Your Gas Prices Higher
Remember $1.83 per gallon gasoline? Seems like a very distant memory? That was the national average price we paid for the precious liquid when President Obama took over the White House...
Obama Claims Solyndra “Not Our Program, Per Se”
After once touting Solyndra as a success story, President Obama sought to distance himself from the now-bankrupt and scandal-plagued manufacturer of solar panels, blaming Congress and China for the debacle instead...
Energy Independence for America?
On top of recent articles at The New American here, here and here about huge oil deposits in the United States, now comes Ed Morse, writing in the Wall Street Journal...
Wind Farms Paid to Stop Producing Power
While President Obama travels around the United States touting “green energy” as the solution to the nation’s spiraling energy costs, the wind farms of the Pacific Northwest are proving once again that...
Coal: The Rock That Burns
“Load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt… ” — Tennessee Ernie Ford Coal is very low on the scale of subjects for...
Environmentalists’ Dilemma: “Green” Wind Farms Threaten Endangered Species
One dilemma faced by environmentalists pushing the use of wind farms to generate electricity is that the machines are actually a deadly environmental hazard — to birds. For instance, the huge...
Oil Companies Fined for Not Buying Nonexistent Cellulosic Ethanol
In 2007, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). In keeping with Bush’s 2006 State of the Union pledge to make ethanol “not...
Interior Sec’y Puts 20-year Ban on New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar has imposed a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims on one million acres of public land near the Grand Canyon. The ban would not affect...
Dozens of Power Plants Closing Due to New EPA Rules
Due to new federal air pollution regulations, more than 32 power plants across the country will be forced to close their doors, according to a recent Associated Press survey. Those plants,...
N.D. Oil Boom Produces Labor Shortage
The current political debate over “jobs” ignores a vital component of jobs and the economy: Government make-work jobs are simply another form of welfare; jobs produced by the private sector that...
EPA Regulations Cost Jobs and Cause Blackouts
Reports indicate that the predominant costs of implementing the Environmental Protection Agency’s new "green" economy regulations are job loss (as coal plants are forced to close) and mass blackouts. ...