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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
The Science Is Quite Clear: Reducing CO2 Emissions Only Raises Energy Prices
by Alan Carlin July 17, 2019Climate science is not well developed but is quite clear on some matters despite the continued attempts by climate alarmists to obfuscate it.
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Environment/Energy
With Obama-Era Handcuffs Removed, U.S. Finally Becomes Net Oil Exporter
by Tim Huelskamp and James Taylor January 3, 2019For the first time since at least the 1940s, the United States is exporting more oil and petroleum than it imports, spurring economic growth.
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Environment/Energy
Let’s Get Rid of the Ethanol Mandate, Not Reform It
by Bud Weinstein June 28, 2018In recent months, a number of proposals have been put forward to reduce the cost and complexity of complying with the RFS that requires American oil refiners and importers to blend biofuels, mainly corn ethanol, into gasoline and diesel fuel.
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Environment/Energy
Fund Managers Predict the Decline of Oil, But We’ve Heard This One Before
by Steve Goreham May 14, 2018World fund managers predict a fall in the value of oil companies.
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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised he would stimulate the economy by lifting job-killing regulations and mandates on the energy industry that hurt American workers and consumers.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
A Young Person’s Guide to Energy Conservation
by James H. Rust August 9, 2016Energy has long lost media attention; so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. However, problems of energy supply we deemed a crisis in the 1970’s are still with us. U. S. warships still protect Persian Gulf supply of Middle East oil which accounts for one-quarter world’s oil production.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Why Waste Food to Replace Something We Already Have Too Much Of?
by Marita Noon May 23, 2016The 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.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Keli’i Akina: Hawaii Moving to Ban Gasoline and Diesel Vehicles
by H. Sterling Burnett May 16, 2016In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. Keli’i Akina, President of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, joins host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about the efforts to ban gasoline and diesel vehicles in the state of Hawaii and more.
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The purpose of any economic exchange is to better one’s position, whether a person buys or sells something for money or barters for something else. This is the essence of free market capitalism, where all economic transactions are voluntary because they are of mutual benefit. They are all “win-win” situations in the minds of the participants.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
January 2016: the U.S. Becomes a Global Energy Superpower
by Marita Noon January 11, 2016Environmentalists like a good crisis. Spreading fear is a proven fundraising technique—with manmade climate change as the fear du jour. But, back in 2005, the “looming crisis,” according to the Kansas Sierra Club, was the end of cheap oil. The post concludes: “The end of cheap oil, followed by the end of cheap natural gas, threatens to cripple strong economies and devastate weak ones.” The author posits: “The world burns oil faster than new oil is discovered.”