FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 IER Letter to President-elect Obama: Americans Say No to New Energy Bans Washington, DC – Spokesmen have already expressed President-elect Barack Obama’s intention to issue an executive order to block energy production on taxpayer-owned federal lands in Utah.  Many speculate that he may also [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s “Real Time Economics” blog points out that falling oil prices are a great boon for the economy, dubbing them a “stealth stimulus.” This is something we have been arguing for while—reducing energy costs provide a cost-free stimulus for American industry and consumers. Wall Street Journal reporter Brian Blackstone notes that the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 IER Applauds BLM on Final Rule for Shale Development Washington, DC – Daniel Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement applauding The Bureau of Land Management’s final rule to govern commercial oil shale development on federal [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 IER Letter to President-elect Obama: Americans Say No to New Energy Bans Washington, DC – Spokesmen have already expressed President-elect Barack Obama’s intention to issue an executive order to block energy production on taxpayer-owned federal lands in Utah.  Many speculate that he may also [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Expensive “green” energy rejected on ballot initiatives across the country, greater access to domestic supplies of conventional sources still the preferred choice for consumers Washington, DC – Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) won the election, but voters, even in states where he won handily, voted [...]

Even as gas prices have fallen by half in recent weeks, a poll just released by Rasmussen Reports shows that Americans favor offshore drilling by a margin of over 2 to 1 as a means to keep gas prices down. This broad level of public support has remained consistent since early summer when gas prices [...]

The term “green job” has been invented to describe the type of workforce needed to build a new government-funded national “alternative” energy infrastructure. Proponents of “green jobs” say that by spending taxpayer money on energy sources like wind and solar, the government can create millions of new jobs in the process. But according to the [...]

For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Contact: Trice Whitefield (703) 516-2173 Interviews@FactsOnEnergy.org U.S. energy resources provide cost-free alternative to Congressional plan to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars WASHINGTON – Today, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) – an energy think tank that evaluates public policies in the energy markets – endorsed an [...]

Less Supply, More Regulations and Higher Prices for American Consumers Before Wall Street’s implosion and the sharp economic downturn, energy policy dominated the headlines on the Presidential campaign trail. An overwhelming majority of Americans demanded access to offshore energy resources to help increase supplies and lower prices for everything from gas at the pump to [...]

Affordable Energy, Greater Access to Domestic Energy Resources Senator Barack Obama won the presidency last week, but voters, even in states where he handily won, voted down the very plans he favors with respect to energy policy.  President-elect Obama says he will require electric utilities to produce more electricity from renewable sources, wants to provide [...]