Can’t Make This Up

President-elect Obama recently gave a speech detailing his plan to spend nearly $1 trillion on a stimulus package that would add 600,000 new employees to the government payroll while doing nothing to provide for America’s energy future.

Yesterday, Congressional Democrats followed the President elect’s lead and released their own $825 billion plan to juice the economy. Like the President-elect’s plan, the Congressional plan does nothing to lower energy prices or provide real long-term...

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President-electObama recently announced a 21st Century New Deal. He plans to quicklyspend billions on make-work projects in an effort to stimulate theeconomy. As we have reported earlier, his nominee for Director of theOffice of Management and Budget apparently disagrees with this kind ofattempt to stimulate the economy. But Obama is undaunted in recklesslyspending taxpayer dollars. For example, here's what he said aboutenergy:

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California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) is voting today on their plan to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 (about a 25% reduction). Sadly, ARB is ignoring the glaring flaws in its economic analysis.

One thing that is obvious about California’s plan is that it will be very expensive. The only way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is either to use less coal, oil, and natural gas, or to switch to more expensive and less reliable technologies. Any plan to reduce...

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All across America, motorists are rejoicing as gasoline prices plummet. Low gasoline prices are a bright spot in an otherwise dismal economic picture.  But amazingly, the out-of-touch editors of the Washington Post think that the masses should not have access to affordable gasoline or inexpensive go-anywhere transportation options.

The editors opine :

[Higher gas taxes] would stimulate the market for new fuel-efficient cars; defund mischief-making petro-states; and cut carbon emissions. Not...

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In the December 5^th Wall Street Journal, KimStrassel discusses the boot that may soon drop on the U.S. economy as a result of current discussions within President-elect Obama's transition team.  Ms. Strassel has quickly distinguished herself as one of Washington's most insightful analysts of the big picture, and on the issue of what makes the economy grow – energy – she has once again hit the nail directly on the head. The premise of the piece is that the left has thus far beendenied much in...
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The American Energy Alliance recently sent comments to EPA on EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gases. We will continue to fight against ideological fringe groups to who are working to dramatically increase the cost of energy in America.

This past summer, EPA released an "Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" (ANPR) that outlined how it might go about shoehorning the ability to regulate carbon, at best (outright criminalize it, at worst) into the authority already assigned to the EPA by the...

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Author Michael Crichton passed away last week. His books were focused on controversial issues including medical malpractice, airline safety, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and Japan's economic dominance. His most controversial book was State of Fear , a book about global warming where environmentalists are the bad guys. The book was controversial because Crichton challenged conventional wisdom about global warming.

But Crichton was not ignorant of global warming science and policy. He spent a...
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In July, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.[1] This is likely the largest, most far-reaching regulation ever.

The threshold test for EPA to move forward with this far-reaching regulation is whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases ìendanger human health and welfare.î The Bush Administration has not reached a conclusion on that question.

Yesterday, Bloomberg.com...

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Anytime offshore oil drilling is mentioned, environmental activists bring up the tragic 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. This spill was caused by a blow-out on a oil platform. The blow-out leaked 3 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean, covering near-by beaches. This event galvanized public opposition to offshore drilling.

The 1969 oil spill was a tragedy. But the tragedy motivated oil companies to develop oil extraction techniques that minimize spillage and...
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