Jan 24, 2012 As you know, the Obama administration decided last week to deny TransCanada’s application to ship crude oil via the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Valero has planned to be a shipper and purchaser of that oil since 2008, and obviously we were disappointed in the decision. We issued [...]

February 3, 2012 By W.A. Beatty Once upon a time, Al Gore invented the internet.  Now, it seems, Barack Obama is the one who invented hydraulic fracking. To be specific, President Obama is channeling our old VP by taking credit for things he did not invent or create.  What’s worse, though, is that Obama has [...]

By Michael Goodwin Published January 23, 2012 New York Post By rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Obama did more than just pander to environmentalists. He shredded attempts by his handlers to cast him as a pragmatic and reasonable man who can appeal to independent voters. Instead, he stands naked as an ideologue willing [...]

By Ben Wolfgang The Washington Times Wednesday, February 1, 2012 House Republicans assailed the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday morning for its claims that “fracking” caused water contamination in a small Wyoming town, but the hearing was overshadowed by the arrest of Josh Fox, a controversial HBO filmmaker and natural-gas industry critic. Mr. Fox, who [...]

Feb 1, 2012 John Ransom It’s already been widely reported that Warren Buffett, a major shareholder in Obama, Inc. will be one of the primary beneficiaries of the decision from the White House to kill the Keystone pipeline and the jobs it would create. The administration now makes no attempt at all to disguise the [...]

Political infighting results in lost billions By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid owes America $10 billion. That’s the amount taxpayers have been forced to throw away in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, which sits unused because of the Nevada Democrat’s opposition. Because that’s [...]

Leftists see need to thwart development of affordable energy By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, January 30, 2012 President Obama taking credit for higher oil and natural gas production is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. Contrary to the words on the teleprompter at last week’s State of the Union address, [...]

White House wants to turn every other house into a HAZMAT zone By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, January 27, 2012 President Obama said in his State of the Union address, “I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury pollution.” Of course, no one is asking him to back down. [...]

By Scott Peterson Staff writer Christian Science Monitor updated 1/26/2012 4:54:27 PM ET 2012-01-26T21:54:27 ISTANBUL — Tehran has stepped up its bellicose warnings of conflict in the Persian Gulf as potentially crippling new European Union and American sanctions have been approved on Iran’s oil exports and central bank. The US defied the warning of a top [...]

By Fred Lucas January 26, 2012 (CNSNews.com) – Ener1–a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama’s State of the Union Address—announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In [...]