Bob McCarty Writes

Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on Capitol Hill.

I used Google News Search this morning to search for the use of the exact phrase, “Congressional Research Service,” and either of the terms, “Kerry-Boxer” or “Waxman-Markey”, during the past month.  Only eight results surfaced.

Among the eight results, I found that no major media outlets in the United States had mentioned the CRS report, that two Canadian news outlets did mention it, and that one conservative publication in the U.S., National Review, covered it here.

What did they miss?  Two of the most-noteworthy items highlighted in the report produced by the nonpartisan research arm of Congress were as follows:

• The United States has the largest supply of energy resources on Earth — more than Russia or Saudi Arabia; and

• The United States has tapped into only 13 percent of these energy resources, with the other 87 percent still untouched.

For a more-detailed look at what the journalistic wannabes have missed, read a related post, United States Could Be Energy Independent If….

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