The White House has launched a coordinated PR campaign to argue that it is not anti-business. That is a difficult argument to make when we look at the Administration’s record on energy. Time after time the Administration has acted to make it more difficult to produce energy domestically and they are actively seeking to make [...]

IER Prez: “No Administration In History Has Done More to Ensure Producers Do Less” WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Interior secretary Ken Salazar outlined a series of changes to federal leasing rules aimed at making it more difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to explore for and produce abundant reserves of American energy on federal, taxpayer-owned land. Subsequent [...]

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 [...]

Since he took office, Secretary of Interior Salazar has aggressively limited domestic energy production from efficient sources of energy. He revoked oil and gas leases in Utah, delayed taking action to open up additional areas for offshore energy development, and halted a program to allow commercial oil shale leasing. All of these programs would have [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson (202) 621-2951 IER: Interior Decision on Oil Shale Locks Away American Energy Resource Larger than Total Reserves of Middle East WASHINGTON, D.C. – Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today after the Interior Department announced its plans to withdraw [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson (202) 621-2951 IER: Embrace Canadian Energy Washington, D.C. – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) today released the following fact sheet on the important energy trade relationship between the United States and Canada in advance of the President’s trip there tomorrow. President Obama should resist 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 17, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Chris Tucker (202) 346-8825 IER: Obama Interior Pick Will Have “Plenty to Say” on When, Whether American Economy Can Make Its Way Back IER president urges Sec.-designate Salazar to leverage power of affordable energy to deliver jobs, revenue and energy Americans need WASHINGTON – [...]

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 [...]

In this rocky time for the U.S. economy, there was some good economic news this week.  Earnings reports from some of the investor-owned oil companies were released, with several companies exceeding analyst estimates.  A profitable energy industry is welcome news for the American people, who after all own a substantial portion of these companies in [...]