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Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft bring you episode #168 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the R Street Institute and the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.

It’s targeting conservatives. Already, a few score congressional Republicans have fallen for it.

Bureaucrats in Washington, DC have no business nudging people toward one or against the other.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #134 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Illinois Policy Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Gasland is full of hot air.

At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut.

Final federal approval for what is being called the “new Keystone” came from the Army Corps of Engineers on July 26—allowing the pipeline to move forward. The 1,168-mile long Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), also called the Bakken Pipeline, is comparable in length to the Keystone XL. It will cross four states and carry 450,000 barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to a transfer terminal in Illinois where it will connect with other pipelines and be taken to refineries.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kathleen Hartnett White, Director at the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Texas Public Policy Foundation. White joins the show to talk about the new book she co-authored with Stephen Moore titled Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy!

In pursuit of his misguided climate obsession, President Barack Obama has opened yet another front in his continuing war against America’s 260 million car owners.

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—also known as the ethanol mandate—was passed by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007. Regardless of market conditions, it required ever-increasing quantities of biofuel be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply—though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does have the flexibility to make some adjustments based on conditions, such as availability and infrastructure.

According to Mark Twain, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Now six state attorney generals (AG) have banded together to do something about it by initiating governmental legal prosecution. Can a modern “Reign of Terror” be far behind?

Hillary Clinton’s “trustworthiness” problem is fed by a long history of “varying credibility,” as a recent Politico story delineated, including cattle-futures trading, law firm billing records, muddled sniper fire recollections and e-mail use.

Early in his campaign, now top-tier Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, supported ethanol—a position for which I called him out. It has long been thought, that to win in Iowa, a candidate must support ethanol.