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T. Boone Pickens on Natural Gas Prices: Pet Technologies More Important Than Consumers Blog Natural Gas

Barack Obama, T. Boone Pickens

Recently T. Boone Pickens appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the virtual endorsement of the “Pickens Plan” that President Obama had given earlier that week. Amidst the repetition of sensible goals such as “developing our own resources” (that the…

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Breaking Down the EIA 2012 Annual Energy Outlook Blog Oil

Liquid Fuels 1970-2035

Every year, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) prepares an Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) which forecasts energy consumption and demand into the future. In its 2012 Annual Energy Outlook Early Release, EIA makes the following projections[i]:

EIA is still forecasting a…

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Interior Department energy propaganda misleading, disingenuous Press Releases Oil

Offshore Lease Sales

For Immediate Release
IER Releases Facts to Counter Administration Claims About Domestic Energy Production
WASHINGTON D.C. — The interior department announced Tuesday that oil and gas lease sales on public lands increased 20 percent in 2011, generating more than $250…

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Update on the Impact of EPA’s Regulatory Assault: New Regulations to Take 30 GW of Electricity Generation Offline and the Announcements Keep Coming… 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…

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Navy Buys Fuel at $15 per Gallon: They Should Read IER’s New Report Blog Natural Gas

EIA Natural Gas Chart

The Navy will be paying about $15 per gallon for a biofuel-gasoline blend that will be used in a demonstration project next summer.[i] The Navy believes that “Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national…

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The New North Dakota: Shale Oil Takes Off in Colorado Blog Oil

Colorado shale

The shale oil and shale gas revolution is coming to Colorado, which already ranks tenth among the states in oil production.[i] Thanks to new shale production in the Wattenberg Field, the Centennial State could almost triple its output and climb…

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