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    Parents Scrub Toilets So Their Kids Can Attend This Christian School

    One Christian school in Texas provides such a great education opportunity for children that parents are cleaning toilets at the school to afford tuition. Braveheart Christian Academy in Arlington, Texas, provides children in preschool through sixth grade with an individualized approach to education and classroom sizes with a student-teacher ratio of 8 to 1.  Administrators…
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    Energy Expert Stresses Need for More Pipelines After Train Derailment

    An energy expert says the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, underscores the need for more pipelines to transport potentially hazardous substances. “This recent rail accident in East Palestine in Ohio has shown us that we need more pipelines to carry these potential dangerous chemicals, rather than using road and rail,” says Diana…
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    New Jersey’s $8,000-Per-Resident Wind Energy Scheme Won’t Reduce Climate Change

    In stark contrast to the bucolic vision of harvesting energy from the wind, New Jersey is witnessing harsh political reality. Gov. Phil Murphy has approved a large offshore wind farm in southern New Jersey, and local residents and officials who oppose the project because of extremely high costs, the lack of reliable energy, and the…
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    The Inefficiency of the Left’s ‘Energy Efficiency’ Mandates

    President Joe Biden likely had his fingers crossed last month while promising Americans that the administration “does not support” gas stove bans. That’s because this month, his Department of Energy released a proposed rule updating energy efficiency standards with new costly and stringent standards for conventional cooking products—including gas stoves—that would make them unaffordable for…
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    Lying and Denying: Left Is Still Out to Take Away Your Gas Stove

    Southern Democrats attacked the U.S. Army at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. Having ignited the Civil War, these Southerners had the chutzpah to call it the War of Northern Aggression. In like fashion, Democrats unleashed today’s War on Gas. Inspired by their Confederate ancestors, they then blame their victims who complain that…
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    A Modest Proposal on Where Tyrants Can Put Their Gas Bans

    I support a woman’s right to choose whether or not to cook on a gas stove. Too bad allegedly “pro-choice” Democrats disagree. Preventing women (and men) from using natural gas has become all the rage among today’s totalitarian Democrats. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. just proposed to ban gas stoves. New York Gov….
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    Democrats’ Gasophobia Will Kill Americans

    The just-departed polar vortex confirmed that when Mother Nature is enraged, it’s wise to have options. Maddeningly, today’s “pro-choice” Democrats want Americans to have one energy choice. Neo-totalitarian, left-wing eco-extremists are banning new natural gas access in scores of locales. If not reversed, this cruel, stupid, needless policy will kill Americans. The Christmastime deep freeze that transformed…
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    Consuming Less, Paying More: One Spanish Family’s Story of Coping With Europe’s Energy Crisis

    As winter’s colder temperatures set in in Europe, one family is sharing its story of coping with a crippling energy crisis in Spain. “We have two forms of energy to heat our home … . One is gas-powered and the other one is electric-powered,” Maria Teresa Novo told The Daily Signal in a phone interview….
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    Fusion Energy at a Crossroads

    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced to much fanfare earlier this month that scientists have reached a major milestone in fusion energy research.  After decades of research and billions of taxpayer dollars, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility successfully produced a fusion reaction that yielded more energy than was used to initiate…
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    What You Need to Know About Europe’s Energy Crisis This Winter

    Colder temperatures are just around the corner in Europe as many people there brace for an energy crisis this winter. “Well, the latest is that temperatures are dropping in Europe, prices of electricity and other heating fuels have quadrupled, and it’s very difficult for people to afford these high prices,” says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of…
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    Washington State Ban on Natural Gas Heating Is All Cost, No Benefit

    The Washington State Building Code Council, an unelected board that governs construction standards, on Nov. 4 decided to effectively ban natural gas heating in new construction homes and office buildings. Advocates of the new restrictions admitted reluctantly that their new requirements will increase the cost of housing, but perhaps even more notable is that the…
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    Why This Solar Company CEO Wants to Drill, Build Pipelines, and ‘Deploy All Types of Energy’

    Drew Bond, co-founder and president of C3 Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. Having founded several companies in the energy industry, he now leads an organization that helps conservatives counter the Left’s radical environmental ideas. “I would argue that many conservatives are, in fact, better environmentalists than many in the environmental community,” Bond tells The Daily…
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    Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy

    Second of two articles. The first article can be read here. Here’s a reality-framing statement for the roughly 190 countries headed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt that opens on Sunday: Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 appear to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, again, and yet, according to the U.N., greenhouse gas emissions…
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    How Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Becoming an Economic Crisis

    Europe’s energy crisis is becoming an economic crisis. Skyrocketing energy prices are causing companies of all types across the region to cut thousands of jobs, dramatically roll back production, and in some instances, halt business altogether. In Western Europe, French glass company Arc International has made significant cutbacks due to rising energy prices. The company…
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    America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs

    Last week, Saudi Arabia announced, in conjunction with OPEC+, that it would be cutting oil production in the face of dropping prices. That decision came in spite of the Biden White House’s lobbying in favor of increased production, which included a sycophantic visit by President Joe Biden to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In…
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    Europe’s Approaching Energy Crisis and Economic Winter

    Europe is preparing now to suffer the consequences of the wrongheaded interventionist policies it has followed for more than a decade. Inflation, an energy crisis, and a perpetual economic stagnation are the expected outcomes of quantitative easing, unnatural negative interest rates, a ban of traditional energy sources without any feasible alternatives, massive debt, enormous government…
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    Rising Energy Prices Fuel Growing Angst Across Party Lines, Poll Finds

    Economic data released recently reveals that the U.S. economy is still laboring under debilitating inflation.  Rising prices for essential goods and services act as a drag on discretionary spending and will make our current recession all the more painful and long-lasting.  Recent polling by TIPP/Insight provides useful insights into how Americans view the impact of…
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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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