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Energy Exec Says ‘E-mails Helped Our Cause’

November 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Asked whether he thinks the tables could be turned on climate change alarmists after e-mail evidence of manipulation of climate change data by UK researchers surfaced last week, Mike Carey isn’t ready to declare victory.  The president of the American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy does, however, see value in those e-mails coming into public [...]

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Obama Budget Risks Nation’s Energy Security

May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal makes it appear he’s ready, willing and able to bury Americans in new taxes, place the nation’s energy security in peril and put  six-million American jobs at risk. In a statement Friday regarding his proposed 2010 budget for the nation, the president had this to say about energy: Specifically, [...]

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Obama ‘Cap and Trade’ Energy Tax Plan Costly

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons! Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan: “The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse [...]

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‘Group of 10′ Energy Plan ‘Falls Far Short’

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Two weeks ago, the nation’s news media outlets broke “news” about a supposedly-bipartisan energy plan hatched by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a “Group of 10″ U.S. senators.  Unfortunately, that plan falls far short of what is needed, according to Red Cavaney. Cavaney, president and chief executive officer of the American Petroleum Institute, outlined [...]

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T. Boone Pickens Offers Plan to Solve Energy Woes

July 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

America is blessed with the world’s greatest wind power corridor and abundant reserves of clean natural gas, says my fellow Oklahoma State University graduate, T. Boone Pickens. At the same time, it’s facing a three-pronged crisis — economic, environmental and national security — as a result of its dependence on foreign oil. That said, the [...]

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