When it Comes to BP, We Must Be Careful What We Wish For

This morning, as I was driving through Mount Pleasant, SC on my way home to do more studying following my three-hour daily Bar Exam review class, I stopped at an intersection next to a late-model Ford pickup truck and its in-tow fishing boat, a great-looking center-console craft complete with all sorts of antennae and oceanfishing [...]

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall … Who is Culpable, After All?

So, as we speak, the Guy from Southside Chicago–known in some circles as the president of the United States, and in others yet as Marxism’s Greatest Hope–is vigorously searching for the person responsible for the rapidly expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so that he will know precisely “whose ass to kick.” Don’t [...]

From Gulf Oil Crisis, Opportunity

Associated Press: Salazar Announces ONSHORE Drilling Reforms Ahead of anticipated tough questioning on Capitol Hill about the Gulf Coast spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday the government will tighten requirements for onshore oil and gas drilling. The new measures would not apply to oil rigs at sea. Salazar was expected to testify Tuesday at [...]

Health Care, Immigration, Energy and Football: A Conversation With Congressman Joe Barton

It’s not often that I am glaringly, irretrievably wrong.  Sure, I may flub a number or two, but as a guy who has been trained to see both sides of an argument and anticipate the other side’s best shot, when it comes to Texas Congressman Joe Barton, boy did I swing and miss.  And not [...]

It’s Lights Out for the Economy, as Three Senators Introduce New Energy Bill

Oh, for crying out loud, Lindsey Graham is simply going to drive me insane.  I’ve met him before on a few occasions and he truly is a nice and gracious man, but in terms of politics somebody in the Republican Party really, really needs to put a leash on him. Not only is Graham crossing [...]

Obama Administration Places Three-Year Moratorium on Offshore Drilling

As the rest of the nation buzzed about matters of health care reform and political gamesmanship, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar quietly explained to reporters last week that the United States government will delay any new lease plan for oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf until at least 2012.  This is a significant [...]

Data Problems, Conflict of Interest At Heart of $27B Lawsuit Against Chevron

Any way you look at it, the past few months have been a rough time for radical environmentalists. First, leaked e-mails from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, messages which showed intentionally doctored and omitted scientific data and evidence, exposed the theory of man-made global warming as the farcical hoax it is.  Now, the single [...]

As the Nation Looks Elsewhere, Dems Work Against Energy Independence

As things progress in Massachusetts today, we need to be concerned about what’s happening tomorrow a few hundred miles down I-95 South in Washington, D.C., where Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey–a Democrat, co-author of the cap-and-trade legislation which passed the House last year, and chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee–is preparing to conduct a [...]

Higher Gas Tax = Less Commerce

Gas 2.0: ‘GM’s Bob Lutz Says Higher Gas Tax Would Help’ Lutz doesn’t even like hybrids, but the world certainly seems to with hybrid sales ratcheting up in 2009. The problem is, if gas prices stay too low, people aren’t going to buy hybrids or fuel efficient vehicles if they have other options. By ratcheting [...]

The Real ‘Green’ Movement

Popular Science: ‘U.S. Government Invests $78 million in Algae Biofuels Research’ Scientists have been trying their best to turn algae into the biofuel of the 21st century, and now the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants to put some serious muscle behind all that research. That muscle translates into $78 million of federal funding split [...]

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