by John F. McManus. More intensely than almost any other nation, we Americans are dependent on energy — to run businesses, heat and light homes and buildings, power the many forms of transportation we frequently take for granted, and more. Worry over recent years that the world is running out of energy, especially the sources known ... MORE
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Showing posts with label fracking. Show all posts
William Tucker: Press Goes Crackers Over Fracking
Latest in the smear campaign against fracking. If you want to see how the press acts like a bunch of hysterical ninnies, just look at the way an article in Science about earthquakes and underground wastewater storage pools has been distorted into a national alarm about fracking. By the time you read this, you will have already read the headline ... MORE
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deception,
disaster,
energy,
fracking,
media bias,
scare tactics,
science,
technology,
water
Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Lies About Fracking
A campaign of deception. Gasland Part
II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox's earlier
anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO next
Monday. It appears to have rounded up the usual corporate villains
and appealing victims of profit-hungry capitalist skullduggery,
rather than telling the more substantial story: that ... MORE
John Stossel: Gas Myths
Plan to drive more this summer? Annoyed by the price of gas? Complaining that oil companies rip you off? I say, shut up. Even if gas costs $4 per gallon, we should thank Big Oil. Think what they have to do to bring us gas. Oil must be sucked out of the ground, sometimes from war zones or deep beneath oceans. The drills now bend and dig sideways ... MORE
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capitalism,
competition,
drilling,
fracking,
gas,
gas prices,
greed,
oil,
profit,
regulation
Robert H. Nelson: The Fractured Left
Good news on natural gas is bad news for Democrats. Much has been said recently about the deep tensions within the
Republican party. Far less has been said about a sharp division arising
inside the Democratic party. That latter tension was front and center recently when former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell wrote an op-ed piece ... MORE
Conn Carroll: American Energy Revolutionized By Fracking
As green energy failed. It's hard to remember now that President Obama's agenda has degenerated into a sham gun control bill with loopholes big enough to drive a Mack truck through, but back in 2008, progressives had big dreams about how to reshape the entire U.S. economy, starting with the energy sector. For years, liberal ... MORE
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energy,
environment,
fossil fuels,
fracking,
government,
green,
high speed rail,
Obama,
Solyndra
John Stossel: Frack To The Future
The political power of silly people. Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities would love fracking. I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don't ... MORE
John Hoeven: The Right Climate For Remarkable Results
Lessons from North Dakota's oil fields. Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil
production not only cost the United States economy billions of
dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an
elusive goal: true American energy security. I believe, however, that our nation is within striking range of
that goal and, ... MORE
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economics,
energy,
fracking,
fuel,
jobs,
oil,
production,
regulation,
research,
tax,
technology
Obama Promises A Big Push On Climate Change
by Ronald Bailey. Yesterday, President Barack Obama devoted the biggest single
section of his second inaugural address to the problem of climate
change. He has clearly decided to make confronting climate change a
central objective of his second term. In his
second inaugural address the president declared, “We will
respond to the threat of climate ... MORE
Mike Ciandella: Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Flops
Bad investment for United Arab Emirates. Matt Damon’s much hyped anti-fracking film “Promised Land”
has failed to make the impact that its producers and environmental
groups had hoped for. As of January 20, “Promised Land” has raked in a
whopping total of $7,542,000 since it opened on December 28, according
to Box Office Mojo. According ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: The Promised Land Of Fracking
Environmental and economic benefits outweigh the costs. Matt Damon’s new film Promised Land is
stoking the controversy over fracking, the shorthand for natural
gas production using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
The film pits a big natural gas production company against
economically stressed farmers in a Pennsylvania ... MORE
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electricity,
energy,
environment,
fracking,
gas,
government,
Obama,
oil,
production,
science
Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Financed By Oil-Rich Arabs
Lachlan Markay on an inconvenient truth. A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas
producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural
American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed
in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The creators of Promised ... MORE
VIDEO: The Truth About Fracking
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drilling,
energy,
environment,
fracking,
natural gas,
oil,
politics,
prosperity,
science,
water
Washington Times: Fracking Flick Channels Science Fiction
An attempt to explode the natural gas revolution. If you don’t have the facts on your side, make some up. That’s Hollywood’s typical scheme for pushing its left-wing views on American audiences. Tinseltown’s “Promised Land” puts a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of Big Green in its battle to vanquish the natural-gas industry in the ... MORE
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deception,
energy,
environment,
EPA,
fracking,
natural gas,
oil,
regulation,
restrictions,
wealth
Paul Driessen: Global Warming Hysteria Will Kill Jobs
Fracking myths threaten U.S. economy. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10 percent of all U.S. energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. It has increased U.S. oil production 25 percent since 2008 despite more federal land and resource withdrawals, ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: RINOS Play FarmVille
Farming is a game to RINOS (Republicans In Name Only). But farming is not a game. Not in America. We are the world’s No. 1 exporter of wheat, corn and soybeans. If we mess up, global food prices soar, livestock die, and streets erupt in riots. The GOP is supposed to be the party that “gets” economics. Republicans pride themselves ... MORE
Investors Business Daily: Fracking Leads To Cleaner Air
The greatest story never told. Carbon emissions in the U.S. have hit a 20-year low due to a supposedly environmentally unfriendly drilling technique that has created an abundance of cheap natural gas. The free market, it seems, does it better than the EPA. Environmentalists find themselves between shale rock and a hard place after a ... MORE
Washington Times: Obama's War On Guns And Oil
White House unleashes OSHA against hated industries. The Obama administration is using more than just the Environmental Protection Agency to “crucify” businesses it doesn’t like. Congress won’t enact any gun-control measures, and the American people aren’t interested in paying more at the pump. So President Obama has to get a lot more ... MORE
Peter L Gray: Don't Board 'Fracking Banned' Wagon
Another empty scare tactic to promote green energy. In my last column, I preached patience for those who question the safety of extracting shale gas via fracking. In this month’s column, I profile the growing trend of states and localities electing to ban fracking in response to fears that it might cause groundwater contamination. The availability of cheap ... MORE
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