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Stimulus Funds for “Clean” Energy Spur Economic Growth— in Europe, and Asia

February 12, 2010

A little more than three months ago, IER reported that stimulus funds for green energy projects were heading offshore, along with U.S. manufacturing.[i] The article was partly based on an analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, which had evaluated where the stimulus funds for green energy projects were going. The Workshop recently updated its analysis [...]

No Energy Left Behind: To Make Wind and Solar Pass “Market Test,” Change the Test

February 11, 2010

In recent statements both President Obama and Senator Lindsey Graham have harped on the theme that giving subsidies to so-called “clean” energy while taxing fossil-based fuels at the same time are part of a “market-based” solution to the nation’s challenges. Besides the Orwellian idea that government intervention is market-based, Obama and Graham’s remarks underscore just [...]

BUDGET: Obama Raises Taxes on Efficient Energy to Give Subsidies to Inefficient Energy

February 1, 2010

The Obama Administration today released its proposed FY 2011 budget. Not surprisingly, it contained $36.5 billion in new taxes over ten years on the oil and gas industries, while heaping new billions in taxpayer support for politically-favored energies. Such policies are never a good idea, but they are particularly destructive in the midst of a [...]

China Set Records in 2009. What’s in Store for 2010?

January 21, 2010

In 2009, China surpassed Germany as the world’s biggest exporter, adding to the list of economic areas where it ranks number one. According to China’s customs agency, the country’s 2009 exports totaled more than $1.2 trillion. Germany’s foreign trade organization estimated that that country’s exports were $1.17 trillion for 2009. This is yet another sign [...]

America: Awash in Natural Gas—as Long as Hydraulic Fracturing is Allowed

January 20, 2010

Frigid weather across the United States has resulted in a recent increase in demand for heating fuels. Not too long ago, Americans thought that they would be in need of greater natural-gas imports from Canada, the Middle East, and other areas to meet increasing demand, inasmuch as natural gas is the main heating fuel [...]

Five Troubling Aspects of the Copenhagen Accord

December 21, 2009

Even though the climate change PR machines are spinning away in the aftermath of Copenhagen’s COP 15, a few of the Copenhagen Accord’s more troubling consequences are not getting the attention they deserve.   
Senator McCain called “the agreement to take note of the accord” reached by the United States and a handful of developed nations [...]

Investigative Journalists Take Issue with IER Analysis of Recent Energy Report

December 16, 2009

Investigative journalists from Grist, the self-proclaimed “nation’s favorite independent source of green news and views,” recently tweeted some criticism about IER’s overview of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2010 Annual Energy Outlook.
One criticism was that we focused too heavily on EIA’s estimate that fossil energy will continue to be the dominant source of U.S. energy and [...]

Endangering the Economy in an Attempt to Pass Cap-and-Trade

December 15, 2009

For years Congress has struggled to pass legislation to regulate carbon dioxide emissions because Americans know that the regulation of carbon dioxide emission is a tax on energy. Today, the Obama Administration is pushing a new scheme that would create regulations so burdensome that Congress is forced to pass a cap-and-trade bill to reduce the [...]

Fossil Energy Still King in 2035–Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rise with Fossil Fuel Growth

December 15, 2009

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The United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen isn’t stopping the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from forecasting an increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the early release of their Annual Energy Outlook 2010 reference case forecasts.[1] According to the EIA, the Department of Energy’s independent statistical arm, [...]

China Secures Oil and Gas Resources; U.S. Prefers to Wait for Green Energy

December 14, 2009

Around the world, China is investing in oil and gas resources to fuel its booming manufacturing industries and transportation sector to continue its sky-rocketing economic growth. China is not endowed with very much oil and gas resources of its own. Thus, it needs to partner with countries around the world to ensure availability of future [...]

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