Institute for Energy Research

IER STUDIES

May 13th, 2008
Top Five Actions Your Federal Government Can Take to Lower Energy Prices

April 13th, 2008
IER Rebuttal to Boucher White Paper

January 19th, 2007
Resourceship: An Austrian Theory of Mineral Resources

May 1st, 2006
Oil and Gas Industry Investments in Alternative Energy, Frontier Hydrocarbons, and Advanced End-Use Technologies

FROM THE BLOG

May 6th, 2008
Higher Food Prices: The Fault of Big Oil or King Corn?

April 16th, 2008
WSJ: South Korea Pitches New Energy Idea

April 14th, 2008
MIT partners with Fraunhofer on alternative energy institute

April 14th, 2008
Consumer spending sluggish due to gasoline prices

IN THE PIPELINE

Iran Expects OPEC Supply Cut as Heavy Oil Demand Weak
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will eventually have to cut production of lower-quality crude as warmer weather in the northern hemisphere reduces demand for oil, Iran’s OPEC governor said today.

Warming to McCain
In his climate speech on Monday, Mr. McCain exhibited (as the press usually does) a complete lack of consciousness of the fact that evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming. Yet policy must be a matter of costs and benefits, adjusted for

Carbon-Market Concept Moves to Mainstream
Ten years ago, anyone advocating a national system of trading greenhouse-gas emission rights would have seemed like a zealot on the fringe, with no idea of what the American business community could tolerate

ANWR drilling benefits Americans
One of the United States’ most pressing political issues over the past 40 years has been the question of whether or not to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refugem known as ANWR.

Gas Prices and the Blame Game
Gas prices soaring? It’s because oil companies want “excess profits,” as Barack Obama puts it. Right? Wrong. The truth is more complicated.