FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: March 31, 2009 Laura Henderson (202) 621-2951 Road to Serfdom: Climate Bill Envisions Future with Less Energy, Fewer Jobs, Worse Economy WASHINGTON, D.C. – Institute for Energy Research president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today after the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee formally released a draft [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 13, 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson (202) 621-2951 Cap and Trade: All Pain, No Gain for Consumers, Economy, Environment WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of two hearings in the House today on how an economy-wide cap and trade program might affect working-class American families, Institute for Energy Research (IER) released an [...]

Download as PDF The most popular way to regulate carbon dioxide emissions is through a cap and trade program. President Obama and many policymakers support some form of this regulatory policy. Cap and trade aims to cap emissions of carbon dioxide at a politically-determined level and then have the users and producers of oil, coal, [...]

The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 as the central bank of the United States. It acts as the “banker’s bank” and has the dual mission of smoothing out the ups and downs of the business cycle and of containing price inflation. The Fed ultimately controls the U.S. money supply through its regulation of commercial [...]

For the third time in the past 5 months The Washington Post has called for new taxes on energy. This time the Post is calling for a carbon tax because cap-and-trade regimes for greenhouse gas emissions are flawed. According to the Post: Cap-and-trade regimes have advantages, notably the ability to set a limit on emissions [...]

PDF version (174 KB) Last December, California released a draft low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) which calls for a 10.5 percent reduction in the carbon intensity of gasoline and a 10 percent reduction for diesel. Following California’s lead, representatives of 11 Northeastern states recently signed an agreement to pursue a region-wide low-carbon fuel standard. The [...]

Energy is the lifeblood of our economy.  As our competitors around the globe have shown us in recent years, job creation and economic growth begin with access to abundant, affordable energy supplies.  Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s stimulus proposals are founded on the fundamentally flawed notion that we will achieve prosperity if we make coal, oil, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 22, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Chris Tucker (202) 346-8825 IER CEO: Obama Science Pick’s “Intolerance for Dissent,” Persist Predictions of Global Collapse, “Legendary” Houston — Institute for Energy Research (IER) CEO and founder Robert L. Bradley Jr. released the following statement today in response to the president-elect’s announcement that [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Chris Tucker (202) 346-8825 IER CEO: Obama Energy Plan Resurrects Malthusian ‘Limits to Growth,’ Enron ‘Green’ Energy Plays HOUSTON – History warns against the energy plan proposed by President-elect Barack Obama, according to a new book written by the CEO and founder of the [...]

Synopsis (104KB) Introduction Energy is the lifeblood of our economy. The United States, with less than 5% of the world’s population, uses about 25% of the world’s energy and creates nearly 30% of the world’s economic input. The productivity gained from U.S. energy consumption is a major contributor not only to our quality of life, [...]