Bob McCarty Writes

Despite published reports that an offshore drilling moratorium would cost the United States 175,000 jobs per year through 2035 and despite the fact that 61 percent of voters favor offshore drilling, the Obama Administration decided yesterday to go the other way. Citing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a chief reason, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [...]

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If you are among the group of Americans who think we can simply increase tariffs on Chinese products or stop importing finished products and raw materials from China without experiencing painful repercussions, then you are wrong.  The two sentences below prove it: At the present time, the United States obtains its Rare Earth Elements raw [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Since launching this blog almost four years ago, I’ve written and published several posts about a dangerous piece of legislation known as the Law of the Sea Treaty.  Today, I share the update below about the recent passage of the Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act of 2009 by the U.S. [...]

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Thousands of America’s energy workers attended “Rally for Jobs” events in Houston, Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Texas, Wednesday, but members of the national news media refused to cover the events. Thankfully, event organizers at the American Petroleum Institute did the heavy lifting the national media outlets refused to do; they put together a video [...]

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Thanks in part to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the Obama Administration’s unrelenting attacks, the nation’s oil and gas has been the focus of a lot of media attention in recent months.  On Thursday, the American Petroleum Institute hosted a blogger conference call and made several industry experts available to address a variety of topics [...]

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In an e-mail message to department employees two weeks after an explosion rocked BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar continued parroting the Obama Administration lines about “being on the job from Day One” and about BP being responsible. “From day one, we have been anticipating and preparing [...]

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Earlier today, I highlighted the fact that, despite new advertising claims made by General Motors, taxpayers were still on the hook for the bailout money the automaker received.  Now, I can report that the Obama Administration appears to be preparing to “soak” taxpayers again — this time by touting cellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative [...]

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