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IER’s Dan Kish talks energy abundance on Platts Energy Week Videos

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On Sunday, January 15, 2012, IER Senior Vice President Dan Kish was a guest on Platts Energy Week, where he discussed President Obama’s energy agenda, the Keystone XL pipeline, and the abundance of American energy now possible because of shale production.  Click here to watch the entire segment.

On President Obama’s job-killing regulations:
“I think the president has pretty much decided that in cases where he has to choose between…

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State of the Union’s Energy History Blog

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For years our Presidents have called for energy independence during their State of the Union Addresses. Yet our political leaders have been working hard to slow energy production here at home: locking up federal lands for energy development, increasing regulations, proposing renewable energy mandates, and promoting cap-and-trade schemes.
Ironically, all of these public policy adventures have increased our dependence on foreign oil and increased the cost of energy.
Let’s try…

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The Problem with Spain’s Green Jobs Model Blog Solar

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On at least eight occasions, President Obama has stated we should follow Spain’s example, massively subsidizing wind, solar, and other expensive types of electricity production. But if that’s really the model on which the president is basing U.S. policy, we may be in for a longer, deeper and more severe recession than previously thought.
Because the president emphasized Spain, we thought it was important to take a closer look at…

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