Bob McCarty Writes

Greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. oil and natural gas industry declined more than 48 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from 2007 to 2008, a reduction comparable to taking 9.7 million cars off the roads, an American Petroleum Institute-sponsored study estimates.  Among the factors contributing to the reduction is more than $58 billion [...]

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The American Petroleum Institute released the following statement today on two letters — one from 20 governors, the other from 98 business groups — asking Congress to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing greenhouse gas emission rules: The letters indicate broad-based, growing concern from both state governments and business and industry about [...]

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Lunacy on steroids. That’s how I might describe the United Nations “climate change” plan that is the subject of a recent Fox News article that caught my attention yesterday. After reading the article by George Russell, executive editor at Fox News, I’m forced to conclude that the global warming alarmists may have finally reached the [...]

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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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As recently as two years ago, the prospect of being involved in what was expected to be the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the United States had financial planners, philanthropists, development officers and others licking their chops. Today, thanks to President Barack Obama, that excitement has waned as involuntary wealth transfer appears [...]

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Properly motivated, I might go so far as to take time to identify six degrees of separation between John McCain and the rear ends of cows identified by by a British newspaper article 18 months ago as the main source of greenhouse gas pollutants. Not in the mooood to get behind such an effort (multiple [...]

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Though it’s a couple of days old, Steven Milloy’s article, Junk Science: Hot Air Study Melts Global Warming Theory, is well worth reading. The piece begins this way: Global warming alarmists may want to expedite their efforts to hamstring the global economy with greenhouse gas regulation. A new study touted as showing that we’re not [...]

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