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Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival

  • by Marita Noon
  • May 15, 2013

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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Greens Oppose Drilling, Fracking, Keystone … and Exports

  • by Paul Driessen
  • May 7, 2013

The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate.

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Support Drilling, Fracking, Keystone…and Exports

  • by Paul Driessen
  • April 30, 2013

The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows[...]

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BP Finds Sustainability in Oil and Gas, Sells Off Wind

  • by Paul Chesser
  • April 12, 2013

Only a month ago BP – which not long ago promoted itself as “Beyond Petroleum” – released an “energy outlook” video that projected 99 percent of America’s energy will be[...]

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BP: Back to Petroleum and Beyond Puff-power

  • by Marita Noon
  • April 9, 2013

British Petroleum is still one of the world’s biggest oil companies. But as early as the late 1990s they didn’t want you think of them that way. CEO, Lord John[...]

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Why Obama Will Probably Kill the Keystone Pipeline

  • by Jay Lehr
  • April 5, 2013

Heartland’s Jay Lehr predicts Obama will ultimately reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But that will not slow development of Canada’s tar sands, a supposed goal of the environmental activists.

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Renewable Energy’s Big Secret

  • by Steve Goreham
  • February 24, 2013

Climate change has again moved to center stage. In his State of the Union address, President Obama stated, “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do[...]

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Energy Security 101: Another Briefing that President Obama Skipped

  • by Dave Banks
  • October 25, 2012

We’ve doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today building wind turbines and long-lasting batteries.  In the last year alone, we cut oil imports by[...]

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New Jersey Considers Ban on Winged Monkeys

  • by James M. Taylor
  • February 14, 2012

The New Jersey legislature is considering legislation to ban winged, flying monkeys in the state. Wait a minute, I got that wrong – the New Jersey legislature is considering legislation[...]

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The Map Doesn’t Lie: Keystone XL Pipeline Is Environmentally Safe

  • by Rich Trzupek
  • January 20, 2012

In an attempt to justify his awful decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama is relying on the public swallowing a couple of myths: 1) the perception that[...]

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Map Shows Keystone XL Pipeline Would Be One of Many Over Aquifer

  • by Jim Lakely
  • January 18, 2012

The Obama administration today decided to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would deliver close to 1 million barrels of oil per day from neighboring Canada to U.S.[...]

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An Open Letter to the Oil and Gas Industry: The Ethical Case for Fracking

  • by Joe Bast, Jay Lehr and Mike Gemmell
  • December 11, 2011

Those of you in the oil and gas industry are no doubt familiar with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s claim that fracking is a potential source of groundwater contamination, and[...]

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Oil Boom Growing Pains

  • by John Monaghan
  • December 2, 2011

As North Dakota benefits from the vast oil reserves discovered in the Bakken formation, you think NPR would find reason to cheer. With a one billion dollar budget surplus and[...]

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Decision to Tap SPR Misguided

  • by John Monaghan
  • June 23, 2011

Today, the president has decided to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (“SPR”) in a coordinated effort with the International Energy Agency to release[...]

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Obama’s War on Oil, Coal, and America

  • by Alan Caruba
  • June 18, 2011

If there is a single reason for defeating Barack Obama’s bid for reelection, it would be his energy policies, all of which have been aimed at denying Americans access to[...]

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