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Energy Density in the Driver’s Seat Blog Wind

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What is driving U.S. energy policy? One might say Obama, Jackson, Salazar, or even Holdren—or any politician whose visible hand redirects the market’s invisible hand.
But on closer inspection, these folk are really just riding the brakes. The accelerator is…

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IER President Pushes Back Against New Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations Press Releases Oil

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“If President Obama is serious about his ‘all of the above’ energy plan, he would . . . spend less time contriving new ways to crucify America’s conventional energy producers with burdensome regulations, punitive tax increases, and discriminatory enforcement.”
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IER Releases ‘Hard Facts: An Energy Primer” Press Releases Wind

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WASHINGTON D.C. —  The Institute for Energy Research released today a comprehensive energy primer that assesses the U.S. production and consumption levels of all major sources. Grounded in IER’s free market-based approach to global energy and environmental policy, “Hard Facts:…

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Ken Salazar’s Fairy Tale Energy Policy Blog Oil

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar trumpeted the Obama Administration’s “all-of-the-above” energy policies at the National Press Club yesterday –policies that exclude oil and natural gas drilling on many federal lands and that kill coal production and consumption. Instead of making federal…

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Abundant Natural Gas Means Low Prices, Increased Trade Potential Analysis Natural Gas

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Natural gas production in the United States is hitting unprecedented highs, storage tanks are filling, and prices are falling to levels not seen in a decade. American consumers are benefiting from the glut while gas producers are looking toward oil…

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IER Statement on New EPA Anti-Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations Press Releases Natural Gas

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“This rule is the result of a well-worn path whereby environmentalist ideologues sue the federal government to restrict fossil fuel development, while politicized regulators jump gleefully at the chance to aggrandize the power of their agencies.”
– IER President Thomas…

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