Post Tagged with: "oil"

February 10, 2013 16:53

US Consumers Subsidizing Venezuelan Gasoline Selling at 18 Cents a Gallon

The last thing the US should be doing is helping subsidize Venezuelan socialism through cheaper refined products at the expense of US citizens

December 11, 2012 07:22

Obama’s Walt Disney energy policies

Knowing hope and hype energy can’t survive without mandates and subsidies, they are doubling down on grants and loans for campaign-contributing corporate cronies.

October 25, 2012 08:23

Perverse environmentalist oil ethics

It’s time to apply the same legal, ethical and credibility standards to these “socially responsible” outfits that they insist on applying to the corporations they denounce. Keep that in mind the next time you see EPA, Greenpeace, Co-operative Bank or anyone else taking pot shots at oil sands or Keystone.

September 14, 2012 06:23

Drill Baby Drill Creates Economic Miracle

Oil production in North Dakota continues to make it the most economically successful state in America, with record levels of employment and income growth, the lowest state jobless rate in the country, a state budget surplus of $1 billion, the lowest home foreclosure rate in the country, strong housing and construction markets, and jobless rates in ten of the state’s counties below 2.0%.

September 4, 2012 09:11

Strategic Petroleum Reserves: The New Monetary Tool?

If the ECB is going to target an interest rate for Spanish Bond Yields on the 10=Year why not set actual targets for Oil as well.

August 16, 2012 06:43

America’s Energy Outlook

Oil and gas not only touches people’s lives everyday whenever you flip on the light or gas up at the gas station but it affects costs of all services and goods. Higher energy costs drive up costs for virtually everything.

August 10, 2012 06:46

“Evil” Oil Company is Tax Paying Super Hero

ExxonMobil Pays $3 In Taxes For Every $1 In Profit

July 30, 2012 07:54

Sand dollars – another economic boom side effect from oil

[S]ilica sand mining growth has led to the creation of hundreds of regional jobs, both directly in the industry and through a ripple effect on related businesses. – Leader Telegram

June 19, 2012 07:19

Secret boom in North Dakota – tell Obama

The recent boom of the Bakken oil fields—made possible by a perfect storm of sensible state regulations, the fracking process, and the fact that most drilling is taking place on private lands—has produced a whirlwind of economic growth in a formerly sleepy corner of northwest North Dakota. Recently, a team from The Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Energy Research (IER) traveled out West to see it for ourselves.

May 24, 2012 16:20

Global recession means drop in oil prices

Oil is a global commodity and lower demand means lower prices. As Europe crashes, China slows down and America stalls, oil prices will continue downward followed by lower gas prices. Watch for Obama to take credit for lower prices but not the economic slowdown that is really causing the price drop.