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What’s Wrong With the SAFE Report? Analysis Oil

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Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a group of corporate CEOs and active and retired military officers with concerns about oil released a report entitled “The New American Oil Boom, Implications for Energy Security” via Its Energy Security Leadership Council.[i]  The…

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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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Obama’s Offshore Plan: One Giant Leap Backwards Analysis Oil

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After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved to open almost all of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and development. But in November 2011, the Obama administration released an offshore…

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Drill, No-Spill High Tech Blog Oil

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Offshore oil and gas is booming. And it is sustainable, driven by consumer demand for the best of energies in a hampered-but-free market.
Compare this to ethanol, wind power, and (on-grid) solar power, all of which depend on special government…

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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 President Thomas Pyle on New Keystone XL Permit Application Press Releases Oil

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For Immediate Release
May 4, 2012
WASHINGTON D.C. — Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, released the following statement on today’s re-filing of a supplemental Keystone XL pipeline permit application by TransCanada:
“President Obama has single-handedly stopped…

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