Energy
JOHN STOSSEL:: Frack to the Future | RCP
By MB Snow at March 13, 2013 | 12:53 am
By John Stossel - March 13, 2013 -- Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities would love fracking. I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don't feel the love. Yoko ... Go To Article
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BJORN LOMBORG:: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 11, 2013 | 1:29 pm
By Bjorn Lomborg -- Electric cars are promoted as the chic harbinger of an environmentally benign future. Ads assure us of "zero emissions," and President Obama has promised a million on the road by 2015. With sales for 2012 coming in at about 50,000, that million-car figure is a pipe dream. Consumers remain wary of the cars' limited range, higher price and the ... Go To Article
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Carbon Power Politics – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 5, 2013 | 12:53 am
President Obama gave his second-term global warming agenda a lot more definition Monday with a new Environmental Protection Agency chief to replace Lisa Jackson. Picking Gina McCarthy, one of her top lieutenants and the architect of some of the agency's most destructive carbon rules, is a sign he intends to make good on his vow of "executive actions" if Congress doesn't ... Go To Article
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CONN CARROLL:: California in Crisis: Green state chokes off its middle class | WashEx [Part 5 of 5]
By MB Snow at March 4, 2013 | 12:35 am
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Conn Carroll -- Fifth in a five-part series. To see the previous day's installment, click here, and to see the entire series, including stories, video and graphics, click here. For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like ... Go To Article
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FUEL FIX » Oil’s new reign in Texas draws comparisons to the Kingdom
By MB Snow at February 18, 2013 | 12:05 am
February 17, 2013, by Vicki Vaughan The Lone Star State is earning a new moniker: Saudi Texas. Oil production in Texas is soaring, jumping to an average 2.139 million barrels a day in November — the best showing in more than 25 years. Analysts are chalking up Texas’ booming production to shale plays, especially South Texas’ Eagle Ford, where production ... Go To Article
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SEN. BOXER Introduces Carbon Tax Bill Three Months After WH Promised ‘We Would Never Propose’ One | CNS News
By MB Snow at February 15, 2013 | 12:10 am
By Craig Bannister, February 14, 2013 Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill to levy a carbon tax. But, back on Nov. 15 of last year, Pres. Obama's press secretary promised the administration would "never" do so. According to Reuters, the new tax law "would set a $20 tax for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent a polluter would emit beyond a set limit, ... Go To Article
CALIFORNIA: Shale oil deposit a possible boon to struggling California, but state wary, enviros opposed | Fox News
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:15 pm
Published February 09, 2013FoxNews.com A vast, untapped oil reserve in California is emerging as perhaps one of the state’s best opportunities to improve its still struggling economy, but exploration and production efforts face resistance from the powerful environmental lobby and Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration that appears not to be fully sold on the ... Go To Article
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FRACKING IN CA:: Brown vs. Green: Clash of the Titans in California | Via Meadia
By MB Snow at February 6, 2013 | 12:45 am
Massive shale oil reserves could give California one of the biggest oil booms on Earth, but the uber-powerful California green lobby is gearing up for the fight of its life. The stakes of the battle could be huge, reports the New York Times. Hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs for Californians, versus environmental concerns about fracking, pipelines, and ... Go To Article
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ENERGY: Major changes from oil revolution – WashTimes
By MB Snow at February 5, 2013 | 12:40 am
By Patrice Hill-The Washington Times Monday, February 4, 2013 -- For Americans who came of age in an era marked by worries about scarce world oil supplies, dominant international oil cartels and unrest in the Middle East, the times are changing — quickly. Technologies bred in America are unlocking reserves of oil that for decades were considered out of reach. With ... Go To Article
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FRACKING:: New Gas Extraction Methods Alter Global Balance of Power – DER SPIEGEL
By MB Snow at February 4, 2013 | 10:36 am
By SPIEGEL Staff -- The United States is sitting on massive natural gas and oil reserves that have the potential to shift the geopolitical balance in its favor. Worries are increasing in Russia and the Arab states of waning influence and falling market prices. Williston, North Dakota, is a bleak little city in the vast American prairie. It's dusty in the summer and ... Go To Article
