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Report: EPA regs will shut down 28 GW of energy production
Shutdown Last month we told you about energy plants in both Kentucky and Indiana which are facing the prospect of shutting down far ahead of schedule because of pending EPA regulations. These closures...
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Cuba drills where Obama fears to tread
Beaten to the punch Good news, domestic energy fans! After extraordinary delays, it looks like there will finally be some energy production activity in the Gulf of Mexico once again. This time it’s in...
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House Republican Study Committee introduces new jobs plan
If you liked “Cut, Cap and Balance,” you’ll love this. From the folks who brought you “Cut, Cap and Balance” comes a plan to create jobs by growing the economy — not the government. The Republican...
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Inhofe: Only one candidate addresses the four major issues
Plus a sneak peek at his new book and his CPAC speech. Yesterday I had the chance to spend some time with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the conservative stalwart who has spent the last several years...
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Solardammerung: The twilight of Germany’s green-energy subsidies
Subsidizing jobs in China for zero real decrease in carbon emissions. When the global-warming hysteria hit its peak, no Western nation responded with as much commitment to it than Germany. Over a...
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America Needs Buddy for President in 2012!
Who are you going to vote for in 2012? Here’s how it breaks down… If you’re an Obama supporter, which means you’re going to vote for Obama even though you don’t really want to. But, you’ll...
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Chu: Uh, never mind on that European gas prices goal
Shocka! Isn’t it amazing what a couple of bad polls can produce? In 2008, then-incoming-Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the Wall Street Journal that American energy policy should be calibrated to...
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In which Obama shabbily attempts to perpetuate the myth of energy scarcity
Shading the truth. The president likes to repeat that oil production is at an all-time high under his administration. He also likes to emphasize “we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.”...
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Obama on his opponents: They would have been founding members of the “flat...
Enlightened. In a speech at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md., a smug President Barack Obama smeared opponents of his energy policies as backward and unscientific in their approach:...
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Romney to Obama: I’d fire that “gas hike trio” of yours ASAP if I were you
Advice. In his interview on “Fox News Sunday” this morning, Mitt Romney again ratcheted up his rhetoric on gas prices, calling for the president to fire what he dubbed the “gas hike trio” of Energy...
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The fallacy of subsidized parity in energy pricing
Solardammerung, continued. Yesterday, the Washington Post told the sad tale of Germany and the rest of Europe regaining its senses on solar power. After decades of heavy subsidies and price supports,...
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Chu: I give myself another A on gas prices
Grade inflation redux. That report card from the Department of Energy is starting to look pretty darned good, eh? Three weeks ago, Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave himself an A-minus for his...
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Video: Obama says we’re producing too much oil and gas
Fakery. President Barack Obama is in my home state of Oklahoma today, touting his tired talking points about energy in little Cushing, “the town that fossil fuel built.” For the record, most...
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Subpoenaed: GOP wants to know why Obama administration misled Americans on...
Transparency promise is put to the test President Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium following the 2010 oil spill caused widespread job losses and a significant drop in energy production in the Gulf...
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T. Boone Pickens: I’ve lost my a** in wind power
The need for realism in energy policy. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, oil magnate T. Boone Pickens boasted of his oil, gas, wind and solar bona fides — and accused the president of not just having a...
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House GOP: Want more jobs? How ’bout we quit stalling on energy production?
“Everybody booms in the process.” Preach it! For the time being, President Obama has moved away from energy as the campaign theme du jour, especially as gas prices have calmed down. It therefore warms...
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Bad news, guys: America doesn’t score too well on the “Happy Planet Index”
Green for thee, but not for me. The “Happy Planet Index,” a project of the New Economics Foundation (an influential think tank with a 50-strong staff and a multi-million dollar budget) aims to assess...
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Video: Truthland is the answer to Gasland
Go see for yourself If you’ve read Hot Air even infrequently over the last few years, you’ve seen my rather disgusted comments over the filmmaker / fabulist Josh Fox and his pseudo-documentary...
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