Energy
OIL RELEASE:: EXCLUSIVE: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release – Reuters
By MB Snow at March 15, 2012 | 11:13 am
(Reuters) - Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in a U.S. election year. A formal request from the United States to the UK to join forces in a release of oil from government-controlled reserves is ... Go To Article
STEVE FORBES:: Know-Nothing Senator – Forbes
By MB Snow at March 14, 2012 | 4:18 pm
Chuck Schumer (Democrat–New York), the headline-loving U.S. senator who hasn’t disguised his ambition to succeed Harry Reid as the Senate Majority Leader, garnered some press attention the other day by calling on Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production in order to help suppress a politically intolerable rise in the price of gasoline in the U.S. Such chutzpah, even ... Go To Article
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ENERGY:: Review & Outlook: Big Oil, Bigger Taxes – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 14, 2012 | 12:59 am
President Obama says he wants to end subsidies for what he calls "the fuel of the past," but lucky for him oil and gas will be the fuels of the future too. His budget-deficit blowout would be so much worse without Big Oil, because the truth is that this industry is subsidizing the government. Much, much worse, actually. The federal Energy Information Administration ... Go To Article
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ENERGY:: OBAMA in Your Tank – New York Sun
By MB Snow at March 14, 2012 | 12:17 am
Editorial of The New York Sun | March 12, 2012 “Obama Defends Energy Policies” is the headline over a Reuters dispatch in respect of gasoline prices. It reports on the president’s launch of what the British wire service characterizes as “the most comprehensive defense to date of his energy policies.” It says the president is “pushing back against ... Go To Article
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PETHOKOUKIS:: The entire Obama presidency, in one anecdote « The Enterprise Blog
By MB Snow at March 13, 2012 | 10:33 am
By James Pethokoukis, March 13, 2012, 8:29 am One of my favorite moments from the new book The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery: Energy was a particular obsession of the president-elect’s, and therefore a particular source of frustration. Week after week, [White House economic adviser Christina] Romer would march in with an estimate of the ... Go To Article
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ENERGY:: Faulty Wells, Not Fracking, Blamed for Water Pollution – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 13, 2012 | 12:53 am
By RUSSELL GOLD Some energy companies, state regulators, academics and environmentalists are reaching consensus that natural-gas drilling has led to several incidents of water pollution—but not because of fracking. The energy officials and some environmentalists agree that poorly built wells are to blame for some cases of water contamination. In those cases, they ... Go To Article
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON:: The Truth about Fracking – NRO
By MB Snow at March 12, 2012 | 1:10 pm
In the middle-of-frackin’-nowhere Pennsylvania, Boy Genius is showing off his giant robot: It’s about 150 feet tall, God and the almighty engineers alone know how many hundreds of tons of steel, and four big, flat duck feet on bright orange legs. “Yeah, this is kind of cool,” he says of his supersized Erector Set project. “You can set those feet at 45 degrees, ... Go To Article
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BOBBY JINDAL: Obama’s Politicized Energy Policy – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 12, 2012 | 12:55 am
By BOBBY JINDAL With rising energy costs making it more expensive to drive our cars, heat our homes, and fuel our sputtering economy, many Republicans are criticizing the Obama administration for a failure to adopt a comprehensive energy policy. I believe that critique lets the president off too easily. His administration does have a national energy policy—it's just ... Go To Article
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UNION LEADERS Seek To Repair Internal Divisions Over Keystone Pipeline – Fox News
By MB Snow at March 11, 2012 | 12:10 am
WASHINGTON – Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over his rejection of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Trade unions representing workers who stand to benefit from thousands of new construction jobs from the Keystone XL pipeline are furious at other unions that joined ... Go To Article
MICHELLE MALKIN:: Colorado’s Own Green-Loan Sinkhole – NRO
By MB Snow at March 10, 2012 | 12:49 am
There’s no escaping Solyndra Syndrome. Here in my home state of Colorado, citizen journalists have uncovered our own gaping government-green-loan sinkhole. The stench of Chicago-on-the-Potomac is fouling the fresh Rocky Mountain air. Meet Loveland-based Abound Solar, the lucky winner of a $400 million federal loan guarantee from the Obama administration. Earlier this ... Go To Article
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