 Energy Facts Energy Features 04/08/2011 ENERGY - Kelvin Kemm - Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't melt down The recent tragic events in Japan have brought the issue of nuclear energy to the forefront of public discussion. While some have exploited the tragedy to advance anti-nuclear policies, others have tried to defend this important energy source on the grounds of its importance to our economy and standard of living. read more. 03/28/2011 ENERGY - Alan Caruba - Against All Energy Anywhere One of the great afflictions of the environmentalists—Greens—everywhere is a profound lack of understanding of the role that energy plays in whether a nation prospers or just limps along, barely keeping the lights on. read more. 03/11/2011 ENERGY - Marita K. Noon - Press Release: Response to President Obama's Press Conference on Rising Energy Prices "He's talking out both sides of his mouth," said Marita K. Noon, of energy advocate organization Energy Makes America Great Inc, about President Obama's quickly-called middle-of-the-day news conference today about rising energy prices for the American people. read more. 02/04/2011 ENERGY - Marita K. Noon - Energy industry: encouragement, not punishment As President Obama stated, the oil companies are "doing just fine." Of course, the speechwriters’ intent was to create a shift in public opinion—bad them, good us. The problem is that the statement (and, really, the whole speech) shows a lack of understanding of how business works ... read more. 01/10/2011 ENERGY - Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Niger Innis - The real story behind President Obama and Michael Vick the Affordable Power Alliance constantly reminds people … and as two of its co-chairs again remind them in this article … that agenda will actually KILL jobs, hobble our economy and roll back civil rights progress. read more. 12/01/2010 ENERGY - Paul Driessen and Robert Carter: Lomborg’s Wrong Solution To A Partly Real Problem Bjorn Lomborg has been energetically courting publicity for his new film, “Cool It.” The film has attracted minimal box office sales thus far, but he has been publishing articles at an impressive clip, in a quest for more exposure, influence and funding. read more. 11/22/2010 ENERGY - Gerard Wynn: U.S. corn ethanol "was not a good policy"-Gore Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was "not a good policy", weeks before tax credits are up for renewal. read more. 11/09/2010 ENERGY Carol Browner Lied About Scientists Approving Moratorium On Ocean Oil Drilling - They Didn't, Says Agency Top Cop. The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report. read more. 11/01/2010 ENERGY Time to End the Double Standards Government officials and grant recipients must also be held accountable for fraud... read more. 10/29/2010 ENERGY Energy Claims and Realities What will happen to jobs, living standards and families under restrictive energy policies? read more. 10/28/2010 ENERGY Pennsylvania: Governor Bans More Gas Development Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed an order Tuesday effectively banning further natural gas development on state forest land. He said the action was needed in part to prevent unchecked industrialization of public lands in a state that has seen an boom in natural gas development. read more. 10/27/2010 ENERGY Time to End the Ethanol Rip-Off Psst! Want to avoid $25-to-$30 billion in new deficit spending over the next five years? You do? Okay, then email, fax or call your congressman and tell him you want to let the 45 cents-per-gallon Volumetric Ethanol Tax Credit (VEETC) expire on December 31, 2010. read more. 10/20/2010 ENERGY Tilting At Windwills In its quixotic quest for renewable energy, the government is picking more losers than winners. read more. 10/06/2010 ENERGY Greens Shackle National Security – And Renewable Energy From CDFE Senior Policy Advisor, Paul Driessen: Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they’ve been locking up for decades. read more. 10/06/2010 ENERGY Black Crosses and Black Deaths From Niger Innis and Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.: Attacks on coal-mining and use would trample on hopes, progress, living standards and lives. read more. 09/27/2010 ENERGY Shale Gas Will Rock The World Huge discoveries of natural gas promise to shake up the energy markets and geopolitics. And that's just for starters. read more. 09/22/2010 ENERGY Unsustainable Cow Manure From CDFE's Paul Driessen: It may be useful to address some basic issues, before going further down the road to Renewable Utopia. read more. 09/10/2010 ENERGY Turning Off the (Incandescent) Lights of Liberty What if the government banned air conditioning? What if flat-screen televisions were determined to use too much electricity and were ordered phased out of production? What if the use of all plastic grocery bags were banned? What if the incandescent light bulb, one of the greatest inventions of Thomas Edison in the 1870s was banned? Oh wait, it has been banned. read more. 07/29/2010 ENERGY The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated? 05/12/2010 ENERGY Western Caucus Opposes Kerry-Lieberman Cap and Tax Proposal robbishop.house.gov (Congressional Western Caucus) "It is unacceptable to expect Americans to foot the bill for bad policies that do nothing more than advance political agendas here in Washington. While some special interests consider this bill a ‘win,’" read more. 05/11/2010 ENERGY Learning From The Gulf Blowout CDFE Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen on learning the right lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster. read more. 05/03/2010 ENERGY Turning Tragedy into Triumph MasterResource.org April saw two devastating disasters in the energy industry: a methane explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia that claimed 29 lives, and another explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, which took 11 more. The latter incident, because of the tens of thousands of gallons of oil now pouring from the ocean floor each day, will impact the Gulf region for years if not for decades to come. These tragedies are a terrible reminder of the trial-and-error nature of life. Humans have accomplished many wonders over the millennia – wonders that ended the vicious cycle of crushing poverty that has been mankind’s lot throughout most of history. read more. 03/04/2010 ENERGY Energy Suicide: Unplugging America Simply stated, when you lose electricity, you lose light and warmth, and you are instantly back to the dark ages... that is why energy is so critical, not just to our everyday lives, but to the future of the nation. It is, in many respects, life itself. 01/28/2009 ENERGY Video Release: Less Talk and More Action Needed from Administration to Create New Energy Jobs Obama lied! He has no intention of allowing new nuclear energy plants or allowing oil exploration and production at any place on America's outer continental shelf. His Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, is shutting down oil and gas production on American soil right now, making sure we have only foreign oil to rely on when the public realizes that outputs of wind, solar and biofuels are so tiny they cannot supply our energy needs. Obama says one thing and does another. See the opposition's video on American's energy policy. 11/10/09 ENERGY Affordable Energy: The Foundation of Human Rights and Economic Justice CDFE Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen's policy address delivered on November 5th to the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, University of Missouri – St. Louis campus. Driessen discusses the impact of global warming policies, the benefits of hydrocarbon fuels, the Copenhagen treaty, and more. 09/29/08 The Ethanol Racket Subsidized ethanol doesn't raise food prices, claims trade group. A Fortune video says otherwise. You decide. 09/15/08 Who are you calling stupid? CDFE adjunct scholar Alan Caruba storms anti-fossil-fuel zealot Thomas Friedman for urging America to use imaginary energy instead of the real stuff. 08/25/08 CORE's Niger Innis debates Sierra Club leader Carl Pope. Innis nails Pope at the Democratic National Convention for carrying on a War Against the Poor by opposing more oil and gas production. Al Jazeera Network carries the debate in a two part video posted on YouTube.   08/18/08 RUSSIA CRUSHES EUROPE'S ENERGY STRATEGY There are things more stupid than Europe's energy strategy, but we can't think what, unless it's the U.S. no-energy policy. Canada's Globe and Mail tells all. 08/15/08 INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY - EDITORIAL: THE AXIS OF OIL Oil's dominance is gradually ebbing and will eventually end. But eventually is a long time, and our energy economy can't totally retool in a decade. Down the road, there's a future powered by solar, wind, nuclear, biofuels and maybe hydrogen. In the meantime, the fastest way to boost energy security as well as slow the flow of wealth to terrorists, tinpots and would-be tsars is to drill, drill, drill wherever oil in U.S. territory may be found. 08/15/08Idle leases – or addled minds? Political grandstanding won’t help companies find oil on federal leases, say Newt Gingrich and Roy Innis.
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