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‘Gas Strike’ Fueled by Emotion and Ignorance (Update)

March 10th, 2011 · 9 Comments

This morning, I came across a Facebook event, titled “GAS STRIKE,” that nearly a half-million people have signed up to “attend” today.  Sadly, their effort — which involves boycotting gas stations for one day — is a misguided effort driven more by emotion and ignorance than common sense. Oil companies produce the oil and make [...]

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Gas Price Predictions Haven’t Panned Out – Yet

December 28th, 2010 · No Comments

A CNN Money article published yesterday included a prediction about gas prices made by John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil.  He said that Americans could be paying $5 per gallon of gasoline by 2012.  In response, this designer of “Will Work for Fuel” merchandise says, “Tell me something new.” Since President Barack Obama took [...]

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Senate Must Defeat Law of the Sea Treaty

September 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Sobering Reality: $7 Per Gallon Gas

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

On Tuesday, The New York Times blog, Dot Earth, reported that Harvard researchers believe Americans may have to experience a sobering reality, $7 per gallon gas, to meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.  This news comes almost two years after I published a post in which I shared the prediction of [...]

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Obama to Close GITMO, Submerge Prisoners?

September 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments

File this under “never would have guessed it.” In a piece published today at Right Truth, writer R.J. Godlewski unwittingly provides the evaluatory “tools” needed to connect the future of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility with President Barack Obama’s relentless assault of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry. Before I continue riding this train [...]

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Rhetoric vs. Reality: Do Taxes Targeting Oil and Gas Industry Affect Consumers, Other Industries?

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

As a public service, I offer the second in a series of posts intended to help readers of this blog distinguish between rhetoric and economic reality when it comes to matters impacting the nation’s energy future: RHETORIC: Taxes targeting the oil and natural gas industry are okay because they don’t affect consumers or other industries. [...]

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Average Retail Gasoline Price Declines Again

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

For the 20th time in the last 21 weeks, according to the Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. retail price for all grades of gasoline declined.  The average price fell 8.2 cents (4.2 percent) from Nov. 24 to $1.870 per gallon on Dec. 1 — the lowest weekly average since Jan. 17, 2005. For a [...]

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