[The idea of green energy] was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that solar panels began popping up on rooftops and “gasohol” subsidies were enacted. It was believed that green energy would move the U.S. off of foreign oil and prevent oil from being used as a weapon against us.
Last Friday the EPA announced a reduction in 2014 biofuel mandates from 18 billion to 15 billion gallons. This decision was made because gasoline consumption has fallen and fuel mixes made with over 10 percent biofuels can damage car engines. But there is more to the story.
October 17 was the fortieth anniversary of the oil embargo slapped on America by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). That action changed the entire geopolitical map by taking the power from the United States and giving it to the Middle East. As a result of the embargo, America slid into a serious recession.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured
“In modern times no major entitlement, once it was implemented, has ever been unwound.”
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
The qualities of energy make it a special category of elements found in nature: a super-resource.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
The impact of [gas shale basin] development … has the potential to greatly reduce the world’s dependence on oil and natural gas from rogue nations.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty
We have the ability to produce, sell, and use our own resources, which could drive prosperity and allow the economy to thrive—energy freedom.
Yes, the United States of America is being run by a man who believes that transferring $25 from every man, woman, and child in America to third world countries in the name of “climate assistance” is progress — and is just the beginning.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
While the president regularly demonizes CO2 and “Big Oil” with his lips, his actions have directed something entirely different.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
US politicians and bureaucrats have less compassion and common sense that average Londoner.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
A recent poll found that 60% of Californians were in favor of properly regulated hydraulic fracturing. Only 30% said they prefer a ban.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Apparently the gang green is frustrated with the lack of Congressional action in locking up lands and is now resorting to pressuring the president to take executive action.
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The Illinois Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill placing strict regulations on hydraulic fracturing last week, and now heads to Gov. Quinn’s desk where he has promised to sign it. SB[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Numerous articles document how European climate policies have been disastrous for affordable energy, economic growth, entire industries, people’s jobs and welfare, wildlife habitats and human lives. Even the IPCC, BBC[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty
Apparently unemployment and poverty are “compatible” with the Mora “quality of life.”
Education · Environment/Energy · Featured
Our schools need to end the “green” indoctrination and ensure that students are presented with and taught to ponder and debate all sides of important and complex questions. Parents need to make sure they do so.
Last Thursday, the US Department of the Interior released a draft proposal that would “establish common-sense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.” Last Friday, the US[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority,[...]
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