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May 24, 2012 06:35

Shale Gas Boom Creates Jobs and Saves Consumers Billions

Sure seems like a win, win, win situation – an energy stimulus program that didn’t require any taxpayer support and wasn’t even part of any intentional energy policy from Washington.

May 11, 2012 09:33

Sierra Club Radicals Declare Another War, This Time Against Common Sense

They have just declared war on the natural-gas industry. The Sierra Club already has their “Beyond Coal” campaign, and “Beyond Oil,” and they are renaming their efforts against natural gas as “Beyond Gas”. Clever.

May 3, 2012 12:09

The Human Consequences of Obama’s EPA War on Coal

EPA policies may add $52 billion to Americans’ electricity bills by 2022. That means higher energy bills for Maria Tworek and everyone else who buys electricity. There are real, human consequences of electricity price hikes, something that policymakers would do well to keep in mind.

April 27, 2012 04:34

The Obama administration’s anti-energy policies and supporters

Americans are being deliberately starved of the energy sources we have in abundance. We are being robbed in the form of higher prices for electricity produced in the most expensive fashion, wind and solar, instead of affordable coal. Not only are gasoline prices up, but the government continues to demand more mileage per gallon of gas.

April 6, 2012 04:44

Obama Gives Coal Miners the Shaft

It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be dismissed or ignored so that wealthy environmental groups can be accommodated.

March 30, 2012 10:56

Obama’s “green” jobs lies

The BLS’ new category of “green goods and services” uses an arbitrary and expansive definition to inflate its numbers, but even if the accounting made sense, the category would still be useless for policymakers. If the government really wants to help with job creation, it should just get out of the private sector’s way.

March 30, 2012 10:38

Krauthammer: Obama shuts down coal industry, kills jobs, raises electric rates – offers algae

Obama warned us in 2008 that under his plan “electricity rates would necessarily have to skyrocket.” He also told crowds that he would ask Americans to “sacrifice” by paying higher energy costs and higher gas prices. America had a collective brain freeze in electing Obama in 2008. Will we let it happen again?

March 6, 2012 06:52

Coal heats up as campaign issue for Obama

Lawmakers on both sides of the partisan aisle say Obama administration environmental regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissionsare poised to hit jobs and consumers harder than the Keystone XL decision at the same time the president seems to have abandoned his stated support for the coal industry and clean-coal technology. – Washington Times

March 2, 2012 05:30

We warned you – It’s Happening: 5 Coal-Fired Power Plants Shutting Down

[Y]ou can bet that more ‘necessarily skyrocketing’ electricity prices are what’s for dinner. – Townhall.com [Just as Obama promised in 2008]

February 9, 2012 04:15

Little Green Morons

After three years of the most astonishingly stupid and wasteful green energy policies inflicted on Americans, it is hard keeping score of the various beneficiaries of government largess that are going bankrupt. The most famous at this point is Solyndra that went belly up taking a half billion in loan guarantees—taxpayer funded—with it. Beacon Power, a green energy storage plant, filed for bankruptcy last fall took with it $43 million of more Department of Energy loan guarantees. Ener1, touted during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden—who inadvertently called it “Enron1”—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The electric car battery maker had received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration.