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 [...]
Is Solar-Powered Rickshaw in Your Future?
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
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Barack Obama Breaks Energy-Related Promises
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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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Kerry-Boxer Bill Kills American Jobs, Increases Energy Costs and Undermines Energy Security
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Details of the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill now the subject of hearings in the U.S. Senate bring to mind one question, “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Unfortunately, this morbid humor offers little about which to laugh.
In a post three days ago, I warned you about what my friends in the oil [...]
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Labor, Oil Leaders Fighting to Save American Jobs
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Four months after announcing the formation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, the group’s leaders announced today they have written to senior members of Congress to encourage them to support tax policies that will protect and encourage the development of quality U.S. jobs, while at the same time fortifying our nation’s energy [...]
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Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Bill Faces Opposition (Update)
September 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The headline of a Roll Call article describes the climate change legislation being introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) as “Radioactive.” Many in the nation’s capitol agree.
At the American Petroleum Institute, President Jack Gerard offered some choice words for the measure serving as the Senate counterpart to the House’s similarly-destructive [...]
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