Showing posts with label oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil. Show all posts

Walter E Williams: We Are The Idiots

Why do we listen to them?    Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was responsible for the loss   ... MORE

The Economic Ripple Effect Of The Bakken Shale Oil Boom

by Mark J. Perry.      The Minneapolis Fed recently performed an interesting analysis of the economic ripple effect of shale oil activity in North Dakota as it spreads out from “ground zero” in the Bakken area, here’s an excerpt: The Bakken oil boom has led to strong growth in employment and record low unemployment rates in that region.  ... MORE

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

Blow Off Pampered Greenies, Build Keystone XL

by Katie Kieffer.  Recycling is fine. Conservation is fine. But sometimes greenies cross the line. They expect you and me to go jobless and hungry so they can save a porcupine. President Obama has been pampering his radical greenie friends for far too long. Even the Presidents’ State Department has thrice declared Keystone XL to be      ... MORE

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

3 Reasons To Build The Keystone XL Pipeline

by Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillespie.      Few energy projects have inspired the level of vitriol surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would run 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada through the United States to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold 170 million 170 billon barrels of petroleum, the largest reservoir of black ... 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

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

M. Housel: 3 Economic Misconceptions That Need To Die

Regarding goods from China and Middle East oil. At a conference in Philadelphia last October, a Wharton professor noted that one of the country's biggest economic problems is a tsunami of misinformation. You can't have a rational debate when facts are so easily supplanted by overreaching statements, broad generalizations, and          ... 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

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

Mark J. Perry: The Truth About Those 'Big Oil Subsidies'

A lesson in political double-talk.    Do a Google search for the term “subsidies for oil companies” and you’ll get more than 600,000 results.  Try a search for “subsidies for Big Oil” and you’ll get almost 700,000 results.  The term “tax breaks for Big Oil” has almost half a million results. Then do a Google search for “tax breaks for green energy” and you’ll only   ... MORE

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