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Who Gets Hurt From High Gas and Diesel Prices? There’s More Harm Than You Think.
High gas and diesel prices like those we are experiencing now have sweeping negative economic effects on Americans. Beyond the financial hit at the pump, the economic harm is inflicted in many ways that may not be evident to most. The Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment Briefings This is article No. 1 of 5… -
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The Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment Briefings: What You Need to Know About Gas Prices
Introduction to the ‘What You Need to Know About Gas Prices’ Series High gas and diesel prices have taken their toll on Americans, and despite Biden administration claims to the contrary, the high prices are not a “Putin Price Hike.” For example, retail prices for regular gasoline already had risen by 48% from the week ending Jan. 25, 2021, (when… -
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The Wrong Way to Respond to High Gas Prices
The federal government’s most sensible response to the high gasoline prices we are now experiencing is the exact opposite of what it is currently doing. Instead of gimmicky gas tax holidays and promoting expensive electric vehicles most families can’t afford, the government needs to help facilitate increased supply. That means leasing more federal land and… -
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Here Are the Factors That Affect Gas Prices
When gas prices are high, as they are right now, some policymakers will offer up myths, like price gouging, to explain what’s going on. But the reality is quite different. While harmful government barriers that limit supply are often to blame, there are also simple economics at play and challenges that exist across the oil… -
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9 Policy Objectives to Unleash Domestic Oil Production and Help Drive Down Gas Prices
Most good deceptions have a grain of truth. Presidents and politicians who have felt the political heat of high gasoline prices are often quick to say they have no control over prices at the pump. Reality is more complicated, as many factors contribute to the price of gasoline. But several of the most critical factors… -
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How Government Restrictions on Domestic Drilling Drive Up Gas Prices
The federal government’s restrictions on extracting and transporting oil and gas can play a huge role in driving up gas and diesel prices for American families and businesses, and the more power the government seeks to exercise, the more those impacts are felt by all of us. The following provides just some examples of how… -
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Ron the Magnificent
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done it again. In using already-appropriated government funds to fly 48 illegal alien Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to the tony blue enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, DeSantis has once again demonstrated his mastery of the political game. For at least the second time this year, with the first… -
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Apparent Victory Rings Hollow for Group Opposing School Choice
The effort to block a massive expansion of education choice in Arizona appears to be running out of steam. Beth Lewis, executive director of the anti-school choice group Save Our Schools Arizona put on her best game face Friday afternoon as she announced that her group has gathered enough signatures to put the recent expansion… -
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Politicizing College Football, UMass Trolls Liberty University With ‘Pride Day’
College football season is back—and so is the politicization of a fall pastime that used to unite Americans across the aisle. This year’s game day rivalries on the University of Massachusetts’s home field consist of a little more than fans with opposing school spirit. With plans to host the Liberty University Flames on its territory… -
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Biden’s Increasingly Totalitarian Behavior
“He’s so nice!” A key reason that Joe Biden occupies the White House is that too many voters considered him a nice guy. “It would be fun to have a beer with Grandpa Lunchbucket!” Or so the thinking went. Whatever his ideas, Biden would be so much warmer than Mean Mr. Marmalade, Donald J. Trump. So,… -
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How Can Small Businesses Prosper? Job Creators Network Has a Plan
Small-business owners and congressmen have unveiled an eight-point plan to guide lawmakers in creating conditions for small American businesses to prosper. Among the priorities in the plan, spearheaded by the Job Creators Network, are to make the Trump administration’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, to expand small businesses’ access to capital, and to reduce inflation… -
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Fentanyl: Too Dangerous to Trust Moscow With, but You Can Score Some in Middle School
The Commerce Department announced last week that from now on, the chemicals needed to make fentanyl can only be exported to Russia with a license. The Commerce Department considers them “potentially useful for Russia’s chemical and biological weapons production capabilities.” Meanwhile, also last week, a 13-year-old in Bakersfield, California, brought 150 fentanyl pills to his… -
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Republican Teenager Killed, News Media Yawn
A long time ago, when Air Supply and Toto were in heavy rotation on the radio, I was an 18-year-old Midwestern Republican kid in braces. So, I was especially outraged when news emerged from tiny McHenry, North Dakota, that 18-year-old Republican kid in braces Cayler Ellingson was run over and killed for his political views…. -
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Arizona Points the Way to Greater Education Freedom, Governor Says
It’s vitally important for America that states up their game in public education, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said during an appearance on “The Kevin Roberts Show.” In an interview on Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ podcast, the two-term Republican governor began a discussion of education policy and school choice in Arizona by acknowledging the… -
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Ron DeSantis Found a Way to Finally Get People to Focus on America’s Open Border Catastrophe
What’s been happening at America’s southern border is so crazy and so out of control that it’s almost hard to comprehend. As with all national issues, the power of the corporate media to set the narrative for the massive (but shrinking) number of Americans who still rely on them exclusively to stay informed has also… -
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When California Elects an Unconstitutional, Right-Wing Gavin Newsom Wannabe
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces no real opposition for reelection in November, is on a rampage. The most recent unconstitutional legislation he signed includes an anti-First Amendment law requiring social media platforms “to publicly post their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, harassment and extremism on their platforms,” according to The Hill. Newsom issued a… -
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Fact Check: ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Heartbeat at 6 Weeks,’ Says Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, denied that unborn children have a heartbeat at six weeks and that the ultrasound is part of a grand conspiracy to give men control over women’s bodies—statements that run contrary to well-established facts and medical standards of fetal development. The Claim Abrams hoped to establish that… -
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Martha’s Meltdown Model
Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from Florida that it hugged them—for all of 48 hours. Oddly, the Left became unhinged when red-state governors— whose states the last two years were flooded with some 3 million people… -
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Litigation Could Change Election Procedures in Key Battleground State
Litigation in Pennsylvania could change election procedures in one of the most closely watched battleground states in the country. In 2020, Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes statewide, beating Donald Trump’s 2016 victory margin in the state by about 45,000 votes. This year, the seats of outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and… -
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Rep. Trent Kelly Explains Threat China Poses to America
What kind of threat does China really pose to America? And is America ready to face that threat? In the areas of agriculture, cybersecurity, and economics, China threatens our nation, Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss., says. China has “infiltrated our universities. They’re buying our farmland. They’re stealing technology,” Kelly says. But China is not the only concern….