By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, March 19, 2012 I keep hearing people insist that Obama will win re-election in a cake walk. Frankly, I don’t believe it. According to the polls in September, 2008, he would have lost to John McCain, who ran as lousy a presidential campaign as Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis, [...]

March 19, 2012 By Jeffrey Folks The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was established as a safeguard against emergencies such as the cutoff of oil supplies from the Middle East.  Even when prices have spiked, previous administrations have been loath to tap the SPR.  President George H.W. Bush drew on the SPR during the first Gulf [...]

By MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk) March 19, 2012   House Republicans are preparing to grill Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week over $1.6 billion in loans to finance two massive solar energy projects planned for the desert Southwest, saying investigators have found evidence suggesting the administration cut corners in order to get the loans approved. “The [...]

Mar 18, 2012 Derek Hunter Is there anything worse than this president? I mean, maybe having worms is worse, but I never spent the night at an Occupy Wall Street camp, so I don’t know for sure. But I have had Barack Obama as my president for more than three years, and it’s been a [...]

Published March 17, 2012 The Wall Street Journal U.S. gasoline prices jumped 6% in February, and market experts predict they will climb higher because critical refining operations in the Northeast are shutting down. From New York to Philadelphia, refineries that turn oil into gasoline have been idled or shut permanently because their owners are losing [...]

By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Saturday, March 17, 2012 No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the environmental left, and he remains on the wrong side of energy history. And that’s exactly why [...]

With so many ships trawling the crowded waters of the Persian Gulf, there is always the risk of an ‘accident’ or ‘collision’ with unintended consequences. Mar 15, 2012 WSJ By DANIEL YERGIN As in the 2008 presidential election—remember the chants of “Drill, baby, drill!”—rising oil and gasoline prices have become an issue in 2012. But [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, March 16, 2012 WASHINGTON — Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the past,” he contemptuously calls it. To the American worker who doesn’t commute by government motorcade [...]

Mar 15, 2012 Energy: Just as President Obama was lecturing the country about how more drilling won’t lower gas prices, oil markets called his lie — cutting prices $2 a barrel in mere talk of releasing some oil from the strategic reserve. As the Washington Post reported on Thursday, oil prices “dropped quickly … on [...]

641 federal programs throw taxpayer money at windmills and solar panels By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, March 14, 2012 It’s only now becoming clear how many people have become rich thanks to the global-warming scare. Politicians from both parties have been so afraid of being labeled a “denier” that they’ll vote for [...]