June 18, 2008
Washington, DC – President Bush today called on Congress to repeal its 27 year-old ban offshore energy production, but stopped short of eliminating the executive moratorium on production originally established by his father in 1990. The Institute for Energy Research (IER) urged the president last week to exercise his authority to eliminate that ban [...]
June 12, 2008
“Mr. Bush, Tear Up That Offshore Drilling Ban”
IER Calls on Bush to Tear Up Moratorium on Offshore Drilling
Washington, DC – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) today called on President Bush to exercise his authority to repeal the Executive Order banning energy production on America’s outer continental shelf (OCS). IER [...]
June 11, 2008
Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its Energy Technologies Report . In the report, IEA estimated that cutting carbon dioxide levels in half by 2050 would cost $45 trillion. While reports like this are always based on a number of assumptions, one very important assumption in this case is the amount of “spontaneous [...]
June 10, 2008
TAX: (noun) a burdensome charge, obligation, or duty demanded by a government (verb) to lay a burden on; make serious demands on; to take to task; censure; reprove.
Washington, DC – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) today called on the U.S. Senate to stop the political charade and address the real issues surrounding high energy [...]
June 6, 2008
U.S. Senate Punts Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Bill
No further debate on the ‘most important issue facing the country’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate’s cloture vote on the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner climate change legislation. Forty-eight Senators voted to halt debate on the bill. [...]
June 5, 2008
IER’s economist, Robert Murphy, takes on Nordhaus’ dubious case for a carbon tax with Rolling the Dice. The Murphy study is currently under submission at a peer-reviewed economics journal.
June 4, 2008
By Robert P. Murphy, Economist
As the U.S. Senate debates climate change legislation this week, many have proclaimed the virtue of its “cap and trade” system as a “market solution” to reducing carbon emissions. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Unlike a direct tax, cap and trade is a European-style scheme that masks its negative consequences [...]
June 2, 2008
By William Koetzle
In her weekly radio address on Saturday, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged support for the carbon “cap and trade” bill (S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act), on which the Senate begins debate today. She urges support, not only on the basis that it’s needed to save the Earth as we know [...]