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By Carl Cannon - June 13, 2011In 1972, three MIT scientists peered into the future at the behest of a new international think tank called the Club of Rome, and produced an alarming...(full article)

Tony Knowles helped make Sarah Palin a political celebrity by losing the Alaska governor’s race to her five years ago. Now he is seeking another legacy.As president of the Nation...(full article)

A move to natural gas and renewable energy will be a global long-term trend, even though technology such as wind power is currently more costly than fossil fuels and nuclear, a Gen...(full article)

Horizon Acquisitions said Monday that it had bought APR Energy, the temporary power supplier backed by Madeleine Albright and George Soros, in a deal worth $855 million....(full article)

(Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.N), the second-largest natural gas producer in the United States, raised its common stock dividend 17 percent -- its first increase since Ju...(full article)

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Need a Light Bulb? Uncle Sam Gets to Choose - Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg

If you want to know why so many Americans feel alienated from their government, you need only go to Target and check out the light bulb aisle. Instead of the cheap commodities of y...

What Really Drives Energy Development - Michael Barone, DC Examiner

There's an awful lot that's stale in the debate on government energy policy.Some stale arguments are nevertheless valid: It's dangerous to depend heavily on Middle Eastern oil. Oth...

"Fracking" With Care Key to Energy Future - USA Today

This remarkable reversal of fortune is the result of a dramatic boom in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which uses high-pressure water mixed with...

Bulb In, Bulb Out - Andrew Rice, New York Times Magazine

Over the past few years, in conditions of strict secrecy, a multinational team of scientists has been making a mighty effort to change the light bulb. The prototype they’ve...

U.S. Must Free Up Oil Drilling in Alaska - James Baker, USA Today

Posted |   |  ShareAfter months of oil rigs sitting idle in the Gulf of Mexico, when some producers left to drill in foreign waters, vital energy production there is finally r...

Running on Empty: Drilling Ban 1 Year Later - Thomas Pyle, Wash Times

It was one year ago when the Obama administration imposed a deep-water drilling moratorium on new oil and gas wells in response to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy in the Gulf of Me...

Oil Industry Profits: Fact & Fiction - Lawrence McQuillan, RealClearMarkets

After oil companies released their first-quarter earnings figures last month - showing exceptionally high profits - Democratic leaders predictably called for an end to "subsidies."...

Energy: Expanded Drilling Isn't the Answer - Los Angeles Times

This country can't drill its way to lower gasoline prices. Yet President Obama is opening the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to more drilling, and Republicans in the House pa...

U.S. Gas Prices: Four More Dollars? - Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal

The U.S. Treasury reports that the federal government ran up $870 billion in red ink in the first seven months of this fiscal year. That is $70 billion, or 9%, higher than at the s...

Gas Prices and Political Pandering - New York Times

The closer one looks at what passes for serious debate in Washington over energy, the more depressing it gets. The Republicans have nothing to offer but drill, baby, drill. The Dem...

Managing the Unavoidable in Mideast - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Reading the headlines from the Middle East these days — Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbin...

Plentiful Fuel at Risk - John Stossel, FOX Business

I just learned I'm going to save money! My apartment building in New York will switch from heating oil to cleaner natural gas. Gas is much cheaper than oil now because energy compa...

Big Oil's Money Gusher - Robert Reich, San Francisco Chronicle

ExxonMobil's first-quarter earnings of $10.7 billion are up 69 percent from last year. Other oil companies are also scoring record gains. The five biggest oil companies together ...

Oil and Tax Policy: The Mix Could Be Better - Washington Post

Oil companies enjoy a series of exceptions from federal taxes. Democrats want to rescind some of those exceptions, saving about $21 billion over 10 years, and put that money towa...

Energy Efficiency Gets Short Shrift - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

Questions? Call us at 800-207-8001"Political Connections" focuses on the intersection of politics and policy.A "silver BB": Compact fluorescent lightbulbs.Peering into t...

How Environmentalists Flip-Flopped on Fracking - Ronald Bailey, Reason

The world's projected natural gas supplies jumped 40percent last year. How is such a thing possible? Until a decadeago, experts believed that it would be technically infeasible toe...

Gasoline and Onions - John Stossel, FOX Business

The speculators are ripping us off! "The skyrocketing price of gas and oil has nothing to do with the fundamentals of supply and demand, and has everything to do with Wall Street f...

Energy Prices and Recessions - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

What's the effect of rising energy prices on the economy? Stuart Staniford looks at historical data and says that before 1970 the answer is: nothing. There's no effect at all. But ...

Guests: Senator Barrasso and Rep. Van Hollen - State of the Union

I'm Candy Crowley. And this is STATE OF THE UNION.(END VIDEOTAPE)CROWLEY: Adding to the political mix, jaw-dropping gas prices and skyrocketing oil company profits. It has renewed ...

Why Isn't Obama Celebrating Oil Prices? - David Harsanyi, DC Examiner

It's about time the administration began taking on the ogres of the left's imagination seriously. Attorney General Eric Holder has formed the "Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group...

Obama Running on Empty - Washington Times

Skyrocketing gasoline prices have sent President Obama’s public-approval ratings plummeting. The White House is searching for someone to blame, but the problem rests not with...

Furious Over Gas Prices? Look in the Mirror - Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta J-C

As gas prices soar, Republicans and oil company executives have revived a rallying cry that echoed around the country the last time gas prices spiked: “Drill, baby, drill!&...

We Must Not Forget Lessons of the Gulf Spill - San Francisco Chronicle

One year ago the supposedly impossible happened. A modern, well-equipped deepwater rig blew up, killing 11 workers and spilling 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, wh...

Spillover Effect Can't Be Less Drilling - Mackubin Owens, Boston Herald

It has now been a year since an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, killing 11 workers and eventually spewing 172 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. Much has transpired...

Broad-Based Solution to Energy Problem - Ben Adler, American Prospect

With instability in the Arab world causing oil prices to surge, and Republicans proposing, with typical venality and idiocy, to solve the problem through either rampant domestic oi...

Your Money's Gone with the Wind (& Solar) - Mark Landsbaum, OC Register

Renewable energy is all the rage. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last week to encourage more of it. The law "encouraged" in the way government encourages everything: Do...

Too Soon to Restart Deepwater Drilling - St. Petersburg Times

A year has passed since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history. The pictures of o...

Oil Without Apologies - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

It's the day after President Obama delivered his most recent vision of America's energy future, and I'm sitting in the sunny corporate offices of Chevron, the country's second-la...

Congress Forgets the Gulf Oil Spill - New York Times

Next week marks the first anniversary of an environmental disaster — the explosion at BP’s Macondo oil well that killed 11 workers, sank the drilling rig, sent 4.9 mi...

Safety Helps Energy Independence - Rep. Ed Markey, Politico

Last year, thousands gathered on the National Mall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Building on historic clean air and water victories, the environmental movement ...

Pass the Boone Pickens Bill - Joe Nocera, New York Times

On Wednesday, amid all the hullabaloo over the budget battles, a simple, discrete and largely overlooked bill was dropped into the Congressional hopper. Sponsored by two Democrats ...

The Liberal Elite's Fantasies Collide with Reality - Chris Booker, Telegraph

It might seem strange to link global warming and the futility of wind farms with the ongoing collapse of the euro. But in several directions at the moment we can see the unfo...

U.S. Energy Policy Focus Needs Reality Check - The Oklahoman

No time like the present, says U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, "to incorporate more natural gas vehicles into our transportation portfolio."Ah but it's the future, not the present, that c...

Oil Prices Threaten Economic Recovery - James Surowiecki, The New Yorker

The U.S. economy has finally started to create jobs at a reasonable clip. Inflation is still low. Corporate profits are healthy, and surveys of business conditions suggest that t...

The Natural Gas Revolution - Steven Hayward, The Weekly Standard

When Andrew Liveris took over as CEO of Dow Chemical at the end of 2004, the company was in the midst of a wrenching reorganization that saw it shed 7,000 jobs​—​14 per...

Obama Promised Higher Energy Costs. He Wasn't Kidding - DC Examiner

President Obama held a town hall meeting Wednesday at a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fairless Hills, Pa., to promote his Big Green energy agenda. Not everyone in the audi...

Obama's 'Do-Nothing' Oil Policy Hurts - Investor's Business Daily

Making jokes about remembering what it was like to pump gas or speaking at a foreign-owned wind turbine plant does not ease the pain at the pump that has been orchestrated by the...

Inside Obama's Energy Lecture Series - Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times

It's been years since Barack Obama pumped gas into his family Ford.But somebody told the president that gas prices are going up (another two cents a gallon nationally just yesterda...

Obama's Energetic War on the Young - Robert Knight, Washington Times

President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk energy th...

Energy Mandates Ignore Real World - San Diego Union-Tribune

Gov. Jerry Brown is expected in coming days to sign a bill requiring that 33 percent of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2020, much more than the pres...

Obama's Energy Hoax - Boston Herald

There must be something in the White House water.For decades presidents have been promising to cut oil imports and still nothing much happens. President Barack Obama’s promis...

Charting a Clean Energy Future - New York Times

It was instructive and depressing this week to watch President Obama and Congressional Republicans marching in completely different directions on energy policy. Mr. Obama reminde...

Hoping Obama Has Some Idea How Energy Industry Works - Oklahoman

When earnings reports for energy firms start trickling out this month, watch for the predictable carping about profiteering. Since oil prices have spiked during the first quarter...

Energy Policy Stuck in the Slow Lane - Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times

President Obama didn’t make many front pages with his big energy speech Wednesday. It was mostly a rehash of previously stated positions, a venue to take another jab at oil...

Unleash the American Energy Industry - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Biz Daily

If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on Wednesday, it sure sounds like we're headed for drill, drill, drill. It would be a total reversal of policy. I guess ...

Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future - Heather Zichal, White House

“Today, my Administration is releasing a Blueprint for A Secure Energy Future that outlines the comprehensive national energy policy we’ve pursued since the day I took ...

Obama to Call for 1/3 Cut to Oil Imports - Steven Mufson, Washington Post

President Obama on Wednesday will call for a one-third cut in oil imports by 2020, part of a plan he says will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum.With rising gasoline pr...

The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered - Taylor and Van Doren, Forbes

"Green" energy such as wind, solar and biomass presently constitute only 3.6% of fuel used to generate electricity in the U.S. But if another "I Have a Dream" speech were given ...

Obama's Speech on America's Energy Security - Barack Obama

Georgetown UniversityWashington, D.C.11:36 A.M. EDT Receive news alertsTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Everybody, please have a seat. Pleas...

The Truth: We'll Need Oil, Gas for Decades - Lawrence McQuillan, SF Chron

Oil prices climbed back over $100 per barrel last week. When news like this breaks, pundits and policy wonks on both sides of the political spectrum argue we should depend less o...

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