Obama’s Offshore Plan: One Giant Leap Backwards
After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved to open almost all of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and development. But in November...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With the SAFE Report?
Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a group of corporate CEOs and active and retired military officers with concerns about oil released a report entitled “The New American Oil Boom, Implications...
View ArticlePrivate and State Lands Producing 5.5 Times More Oil Per Acre
Using a study by the Energy Information Administration[i], we have shown that offshore oil production on Federal lands declined by 17 percent in fiscal year 2011 from fiscal 2010 levels. The much...
View ArticleObama Administration Fast Tracks Renewables, Slows Oil and Gas
While the Obama Administration is lollygagging regarding opening federal lands to oil and gas development, its Interior Department has been active in approving renewable projects on federal lands. As...
View ArticleThe Bakken Facts
North Dakota is witnessing a massive oil boom that is bringing the state prosperity at a time when the rest of the country is still struggling economically. The Bakken Formation, underlying much of...
View ArticleThe Booming Sooners: Vast Energy, Low Prices, Low Unemployment
Would you like to live in a state with low unemployment and low energy prices? If so, Oklahoma may be the state for you. Oklahoma’s unemployment rate is less than 5 percent, while the nation’s is at...
View Article2011: The Best and Worst of Times for American Energy
The Energy Information Administration just released its Annual Energy Review 2011 that provides U.S. energy data trends from 1949 through 2011. In short, it was a year that might be called “the best of...
View ArticleThe Center for American Progress: An Unsustainable Energy Vision
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a new study entitled “Regional Energy, National Solutions” that purports to provide “A Real Energy Vision for America.” Yet as we’ll see, the CAP...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Is the White House Responsible for Production Increases?
“I’m proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher than it has been in a decade or more. We have seen a doubling of fuel efficiency standards on cars over the next several...
View ArticleOil and Gas Production Decline on Federal Lands . . . Again
“I’m proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher than it has been in a decade or more. President Obama, February 20, 2013 When President Obama claims responsibility for the...
View ArticleAlaska: An Energy and Economic Analysis
Alaska has some of the highest electricity and gasoline prices in the country, which is not surprising because Alaska is large, remote, and sparsely populated. These factors lead to high costs for both...
View ArticleThe President’s 2015 Budget: A Masterpiece of Energy Wastefulness
President Obama just released his fiscal 2015 budget[i] that spends lavishly on his pet projects including his epically-misnamed “all of the above” energy program. But, instead of keeping miners in...
View Article2011: The Best and Worst of Times for American Energy
The Energy Information Administration just released its Annual Energy Review 2011 that provides U.S. energy data trends from 1949 through 2011. In short, it was a year that might be called “the best of...
View ArticleThe Center for American Progress: An Unsustainable Energy Vision
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a new study entitled “Regional Energy, National Solutions” that purports to provide “A Real Energy Vision for America.” Yet as we’ll see, the CAP...
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FACT CHECK: Is the White House Responsible for Production Increases?
“I’m proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher than it has been in a decade or more. We have seen a doubling of fuel efficiency standards on cars over the next several...
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Oil and Gas Production Decline on Federal Lands . . . Again
“I’m proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher than it has been in a decade or more. President Obama, February 20, 2013 When President Obama claims responsibility for the...
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Alaska: An Energy and Economic Analysis
Alaska has some of the highest electricity and gasoline prices in the country, which is not surprising because Alaska is large, remote, and sparsely populated. These factors lead to high costs for both...
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The President’s 2015 Budget: A Masterpiece of Energy Wastefulness
President Obama just released his fiscal 2015 budget[i] that spends lavishly on his pet projects including his epically-misnamed “all of the above” energy program. But, instead of keeping miners in...
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U.S. Overtakes Saudi Arabia and Russia as Largest Oil Producer
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Bank of America, the United States is now the world’s largest oil and natural gas liquids producer and will remain so for awhile, overtaking...
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U.S. Oil Production on a Steady Upswing Despite Lower Oil Prices
In 2012, President Obama declared that “the problem is we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil and we only have 2 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.” And he also said, “Even if we...
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