Renewable fuel mandates are raising electricity prices in the states. May 4, 2012 WSJ Politicians keep promising to reduce energy prices, but they keep ignoring one easy step: repeal renewal energy standards. Twenty-nine states have these rules requiring local utilities to purchase between 20% and 33% of their electric power from renewable sources. They were [...]

May 5, 2012 – APNews The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The proposed “fracking” rules also set standards for proper construction of wells and wastewater disposal. Interior Secretary [...]

By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Friday, May 4, 2012 The Canadian company seeking to build the massive Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline through the U.S. reapplied for a permit on Friday, pushing the politically sensitive issue back onto President Obama’s plate six months before the election. TransCanada announced it has asked for permits to build [...]

Published May 04, 2012 – Reuters TransCanada Corp is taking its second shot at asking Washington to approve the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline, betting that a new route through Nebraska and post-U.S. election time frame for a decision will push the project forward. The reapplication to the U.S. State Department on Friday comes after [...]

May 2, 2012 Jobs: The same president who used stimulus dollars to build electric cars in Finland and sought to be Brazil’s best oil customer now complains the GOP nominee built his career outsourcing jobs. At least he created some. President Obama’s re-election campaign released an ad Tuesday saying Mitt Romney “shipped American jobs to [...]

By John Stossel Published May 02, 2012 FoxNews.com The human brain is torn between simple intuition and the more complex hard work of figuring out the unintended consequences of any policy. Who doesn’t like thinking about trees and greenery and happy animals? Who doesn’t want to see steps taken to protect those things, all else [...]

By Fred Brownbill on April 16, 2012 in News This comes from a retired oil executive who spent some 40 years in the industry. Mass Exodus US Oil Refineries. The Closure Of The U.S. Oil Refinery Industry In The Past 2 Years: In 2010, there were 149 operable U.S. refineries with a combined capacity of [...]

April 30, 2012 By Warren Beatty As we get into the campaign season (has Obama ever left it?), some recollections of what President Barack Hussein Obama said and has done (courtesy of Peter Schweizer and Ashe Schow) are both humorous and instructive.  Humorous because you have to laugh at what Obama has said and done [...]

Apr 29, 2012 – Bob Beauprez The outrage continues to grow over the revelation by EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz that the “general philosophy” of the EPA regarding regulations of oil and gas producers is to “crucify them.”  Armendariz says the EPA believes in singling out an individual oil company, punish it “as hard [...]

April 27, 2012 By Jerome J. Schmitt With the Solyndra, First Solar, Sunpower, Fisker, and related Obama administration Department of Energy scandals, President Obama is following a trail blazed by Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s.  Similar scandals — failed (or failing) green technology companies intertwined with Democratic Party fundraising – will continue to arise [...]