FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2008 CONTACT Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 IER Continues Energy Education Ad Campaign: Only 9 More Days Until Congressional Bans on Offshore and Oil Shale Energy Expire Washington, DC – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) continues its energy education ad campaign this week with two new radio spots, “Same Failed [...]

Yesterday the House embarked upon yet another in a long series of energy debates. Like its predecessors, this new energy bill, entitled the “Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act” (H.B. 6899) does almost nothing to improve our energy situation. Further, the measure seems to increase costly regulation on buildings and imposing additional burdens [...]

Robert J. Shapiro, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton administration, argues in U.S. News and World Reports that we need to be mindful of geopolitics when considering energy policy because (1) the investor-controlled oil companies control a very small percentage of world oil reserves and (2) Russia will use oil [...]

According to news reports, the Speaker of the House has unveiled a new energy proposal.  It’s described as a compromise that would lead to more offshore energy production.  Based on the bill summary, however, the plans appears to be more of a “bait and switch” that won’t do much of anything to bring new energy [...]

IER President Thomas Pyle penned the following letter to House and Senate leaders and the authors of the “Gang of Ten” energy plan.  Signed letters are attached, as is a draft copy of the Gang of Ten’s plan. To the House of Representatives: To the Senate: Draft of the legislation: September 9, 2008 The Honorable [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 434-820 6 Months, 40 Oversight Hearings, 160 Witnesses Sworn-in, But Zero New Supplies WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now adjourned for its Independence Day recess, the U.S. Congress has convened at least 40 hearings on the issue of skyrocketing energy prices in the first six months of [...]

Washington politicians are accusing oil companies of “stockpiling” federal energy leases to keep supplies low and prices high. They claim “Big Oil” holds leases for 68 million of acres of federal leases that are not currently producing energy.  The following will help separate fact from fiction in the “68 million acres” sound bite. The Claim: [...]

By William Koetzle   In her weekly radio address on Saturday, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged support for the carbon “cap and trade” bill (S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act), on which the Senate begins debate today.  She urges support, not only on the basis that it’s needed to save the Earth as [...]

According to a new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) report, vast untapped oil and natural gas resources exist on public lands in the U.S. These public lands are estimated to contain 31 billion barrels of oil and 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but are are presently closed to energy production. · Link to [...]