By:
Dave Quast
10/12/12 6:11 PM
When the recent debate over hydraulic fracturing in California first got started, Gov. Jerry Brown made a statement that’s worth recalling: “California is the fourth-largest oil producing state and we want to continue that.” Fortunately, we have the resources and the technology to ensure we remain a leading energy producer.
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People can debate all day whether government should be in the business of picking winners and losers in the marketplace by selectively awarding loan guarantees. What’s beyond dispute is that any official decision that results in the loss of half-a-billion tax dollars should elicit an apology from somebody in government.
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President Barack Obama has learned nothing from the widening scandal surrounding the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program.
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The House will vote on Rep. Joe Barton’s, R-Texas, Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB Act) tonight according to Republican leadership sources. The BULB Act would repeal Title III of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which effectively banned the sale of most incandescent light bulbs.
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The International Energy Agency is releasing 60 million barrels of oil — including 30 million barrels from U.S. reserves — into the world market over the next month in an attempt to tamp down rising gas prices.
The action will drain roughly 4 percent of the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which Energy Secretary Steven Chu says is at a "historically high level" with 727 million barrels of oil.
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Remember when you were a kid and your mother told you to eat your Brussels sprouts because “they’re good for you?” That’s exactly the attitude today from President Barack Obama, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar concerning high gas prices.
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The crippling of several of Japan's nuclear reactors is threatening to sink a major component of President Obama's blueprint for a greener economy, with fears over the potentially widespread contamination of Japan jeopardizing the bipartisan coalition the president needs to expand nuclear power in the United States.
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Projects to weatherize homes are a key part of the Obama administration's fusion of stimulus spending and the green agenda. But a new report by the Department of Energy has found serious problems in stimulus-funded weatherization work -- problems so severe that they have resulted in homes that are not only not more energy efficient but are actually dangerous for people to live in.
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