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Do you think Willard’s folks here in DC, who lobby for crews like Chevron,  API, Encana, and Halliburton should say something to someone about this?  I mean, other than the usual complaints about how rude it is for people to point out that Willard may not be as pro-energy as he (now) says he is? New Yorker (3/25/12) reports: Last week, Mitt Romney, who, it now seems, is going to become the Republican nominee whether anybody likes it or not, called on President Barack Obama to fire three...
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“It’s really about the supply...”  So says David Plouffe.  So say we all National Journal (3/25/12) reports: With gas prices rising and the choir of critics growing louder, Obama senior advisor David Plouffe defended the president’s energy policy and said the administration has not ruled out opening the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve…“What I’ll say is we’re not taking that off, that option, off the table,” he said on CNN’s State of the Union. “There are...
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The gas plan is easy — lease more land, issue more permits, reduce regulations CNN Money (3/22/12) reports: The oil industry recently laid out a set of proposals it believes will instantly lower gasoline prices…The proposals call for more domestic oil production, fewer environmental regulations, and for not raising taxes on the industry. They're basically what the Republican presidential candidates are calling for. Amen Chicago Tribune (3/22/12) reports: When the summer driving season...
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The best part of this is that Congressman Markey is always in favor of people sending their heating oil to Massachusetts (think LIHEAP).  Maybe someone should introduce a bill outlawing the transport of energy across State lines Juneau Empire (3/21/12) reports: U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., told oil giants BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil his natural gas export bills now in Congress would block a proposed $40 billion pipeline to export Alaska natural gas to Asia…The bills,...
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If only these guys had positions of authority, and resources they could use to address these issues, and . . . oh wait . ..National Journal (3/7/12) reports: Leaders of some of the world’s biggest oil and natural gas companies are issuing a plea to their industry to do a better job managing what they call the “shale gale”—vast resources of shale natural gas recently discovered throughout the United States and in other countries…“Let’s be honest, as an industry, we have not...
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Well, this is the sort of thing one has to expect when one climbs into bed with “businessmen” who take money from the federal government.  If they have no respect for taxpayers, why would they have any respect for desert ecosystems? Los Angeles Times (2/6/12) reports: Reporting from Ivanpah Valley, Calif.— Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage...
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Keep in mind, CSAPR was the “solid” rule.  What do you figure the courts are going to do with the utility MACT, the boiler MACT, and the GHG rules?  It is pretty much the beginning of the end for EPA’s run of lawlessness The Hill (1/2/12) reports: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency must delay implementation of pending regulations aimed at limiting harmful power plant pollution that crosses state lines…The ruling prevents EPA from...
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We don’t usually include press releases in the pipeline, but this is too delicious.  I’m betting Senator Inhofe puts him on the canvas in the fifth, and the ref calls it somewhere around the eighth EPW (12/12/11) reports: Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today accepted Ralph Nader's invitation to debate Congressman Markey on global warming. .."I would welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of global warming with...
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Let the great debate begin — IER releases energy inventory report that attacks the narrative energy scarcity Powerline Blog (12/6/11) reports: For a long time, the Left has gotten away with underselling America’s energy resources. The old chestnut that the U.S. uses 25% of the world’s oil but only has 2% to 3% of the world’s oil reserves has been repeated endlessly by Barack Obama and many others. This claim fooled millions of people who didn’t understand that in the U.S.,...
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Once again, America leads in the next energy revolution, but will our government get out of the way? Wall Street Journal (12/5/11) reports: Big Oil is redrawing the energy map…For decades, its main stomping grounds were in the developing world—exotic locales like the Persian Gulf and the desert sands of North Africa, the Niger Delta and the Caspian Sea. But in recent years, that geographical focus has undergone a radical change. Western energy giants are increasingly hunting for supplies...
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