Bob McCarty Writes

Thanks to President Barack Obama, who seems to be doing everything he possibly can to destroy the nation’s fossil fuels industries, there may be a solar-powered, made-in-Japan, robotic rickshaw in your future.
The latest attack on “Big Oil” came today when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar used this news release today to announce his department [...]

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In a post one year ago today, I opined about the nation’s energy future under then-President-Elect Barack Obama:
While Americans wait for Barack Obama to take office, the nation’s energy future hangs in the balance.  Still, amidst so much uncertainty, a review of the president-elect’s statements and actions in recent months offers an ever-so-slight [...]

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My friends at the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents some 400 companies involved in the oil and natural gas industry, sent me a note about an extremely-dangerous piece of legislation being sponsored by Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).  It contained the substance of a statement API President [...]

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There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising, according to results of a new survey released today by The Pew Research Center for People and the Press. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious [...]

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The non-partisan Reform Institute’s National Energy Symposium drew more than 45 corporate executives, policymakers and industry experts to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to openly discuss the nation’s energy, environmental and economic challenges.  It appears, however, that representatives of the nation’s largest oil and natural gas exploration and production firms (a.k.a., the “fossil fuelers”) were strangely missing [...]

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