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Update on the Impact of EPA’s Regulatory Assault: New Regulations to Take 30 Analysis Natural Gas

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Update on the Impact of EPA’s Utility MACT and Transport Rules:
New Regulations to Take 30 GW of Electricity Generation Offline and the Announcements Keep Coming…
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them…”
– Barack Obama speaking to San Francisco Chronicle, January 2008
 
In October, the Institute for Energy Research reported that, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s…

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New Oil Finds Around the Globe: Will the U.S. Capitalize on Its Oil Resources? Blog Oil

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By November 23, a team of 12 Congressmen and Senators will determine if they can agree on a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion dollars from the federal deficit. If they fail to agree, predetermined cuts will automatically occur, half of which will be to the Department of Defense budget.[i] One way to get revenues without taxation and spending is to allow the U.S. oil industry to do what…

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Policies of Scarcity in a Land of Plenty Blog Natural Gas

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Various legislative and other proposals have promoted policies that would tax or place a price floor on petroleum-based transportation fuels such as gasoline because as President Obama stated in his recent address, “we’re running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.”[1] Their object is to spur conservation and promote the manufacture of more efficient vehicles, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase national security…

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  • Published // June 23, 2010
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