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Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

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United States Could Be Energy Independent If…

November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.
As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number [...]

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Senate Democrats Oppose Energy Independence (Updated)

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation that will further hinder our nation’s ability to become energy independent (i.e., depend less upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas) is one step closer to becoming law.
There are at least a couple of provisions — and perhaps more — in the just-passed Omnibus Public [...]

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