Obama’s John Holdren: Four More Years?
“This is clearly a green dream team.” - Gene Karpinski, League of Conservation Voters (2008) “We find ourselves firmly in the neo-Malthusian camp … because the barriers to continued material growth, in...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles’ “Burden of History” (Technology Defeated 110 Years Ago)
“Let’s be fair, the combustion engine has got a 100-year head start,” remarked Brian Wynne, president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). “We started this a little while ago…. [We...
View ArticleLet it glow, let it glow, let it glow
Critics of electrified America have mixed emotions this time of the year. It may be the season of good cheer and goodwill toward all, but it is also the time of the most conspicuous of energy...
View Article150 Years ago, Scholars Knew the Need of Dense, Not Intermittent, Energy
W. S. Jevons classic book The Coal Question (1865) explained how coal (and by implication, gas and oil) were uniquely suited for—and indeed, prerequisites for—the machine age. His insights are even...
View ArticleDoes the U.S. need a National Energy Board?
John Hofmeister, formerly president of Houston-based Shell Oil (the U.S. side of Royal Dutch Shell), has been an active voice for energy policy reform. Upon retiring from Shell in 2008, he founded...
View ArticleBRADLEY: New Obama, Old Carter on Energy Policy
Proposals for federal energy planning are old and stale—and perennially misguided. Last week, President Obama proposed a $2 billion Energy Security Trust to “shift our cars and trucks off oil” to...
View ArticleIER/AEA: A Free Market Energy Organization
In his recent Huffington Post piece, Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists portrays the Institute for Energy Research (IER) and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), as “a...
View ArticleSubsidized Coal Gasification: A Legacy of Failure
President Obama’s alleged all-of-the-above energy policy–really all-of-the-bad-to energy policy– includes large taxpayer subsidies for so-called clean-coal technologies, including carbon capture and...
View ArticlePresident Obama Misleads on Oil “Tax Breaks”
President Obama has become the anti-energy president through his determined effort to regulate, tax, and spend in order to prop up the most expensive, least reliable energies at the expense of...
View ArticleFERC’s Regulatory Mission Creep
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—and predecessor, the Federal Power Commission (FPC)—have been a force against competition and market entrepreneurship since the 1930s. Despite the...
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