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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…
    Dan Kish
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    ‘My Blood Still Boils’: Father Recalls School’s Secret Attempt to Transition Daughter

    At the beginning of this year, Wendell Perez got a call that no father ever wants to receive—his elementary-aged daughter had attempted to hang herself in the school bathroom. Perez and his wife rushed to the school, where their daughter was whisked away by a police car to stay in a mental institution for a…
    Marjorie Jackson
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    Biden’s Energy Policies Encourage Global Instability

    When it comes to energy independence—a key component of global stability—the America of 2022 could learn a lot from the America of 1942. In that year, American energy dominance powered the Allied war effort of World War II, making production substantially cheaper and producing an abundance of war material: aviation fuel, gasoline, synthetic rubber, and…
    EJ Antoni
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    What Europe’s Energy Crisis Means for America

    While serving as a U.S. ambassador to Denmark during the Trump administration, my fellow ambassadors and I warned our European allies not to rely on Russian energy imports. We knew that Russia views energy as a commodity that can and has been weaponized, and we led diplomatic efforts with Copenhagen and other major European capitals…
    Carla Sands
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    California’s Grid Braces for Failure Just Days After Biden’s Energy Secretary Praises State’s Green Policies

    California residents are at risk of experiencing blackouts on Tuesday, just four days after President Joe Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, praised the state’s green energy policies. Granholm touted California’s green energy transition in an interview Sept. 3, only four days before California’s electrical grid operator, California Independent System Operator, issued a level 2 energy…
    Jack McEvoy
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    Europe’s Energy Crisis, Explained

    Decades of bad policy decisions by European countries combined with Russia’s “weaponization” of its oil and natural gas resources are to blame for Europe’s ongoing energy crisis, one expert in energy security says.  Energy prices this week reached new heights. Notably, in one benchmark Monday, Germany’s expected prices in 2023 peaked higher than 1,000 euros…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    9 Past Climate Change Forecasts

    “‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul R. Ehrlich, the population biologist, ‘is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. … We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.’” —The New York Times, 1969….
    Larry Elder
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    Biden’s Civil War on Energy Is Leaving Endless Collateral Damage in Its Wake

    President Joe Biden has declared he will “end fossil fuel.” Presidents have declared war on everything from poverty to drugs, but his declaration is much more sinister. His is really a civil war. The combatants are heavy-handed bureaucrats harassing fellow countrymen who want to do nothing more than fuel their car, cool their home, or use their…
    Derrick Morgan
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    Washington Knows Best What Car You Should Drive: Electric Vehicles. Seriously?

    “When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?” Toyota President Akio Toyoda asked in 2020, referring to the profound consequences of politicians forcing a transition away from conventional vehicles. It’s a good question, and a proposal in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act being pushed through Congress…
    Katie Tubb
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    Tesla’s Battery Deals Highlight Chinese Dominance of Key Materials for Electric Vehicles

    Tesla signed new contracts with two of its current Chinese battery material suppliers, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, highlighting the extent to which American electric vehicle manufacturers rely on China for critical minerals and materials. Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. and CNGR Advanced Material Co. renewed pricing agreements to provide Tesla with supplies of ternary precursors, chemical…
    Jack McEvoy
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    The Serious Lack of Good Governance and Economic Freedom: Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s Ongoing Turmoil

    Sri Lanka’s spectacular political downfall over the recent days and ongoing downward economic spiral offers yet another unmistakable reminder: Good governance, both political and economic, matters. The overthrow by ordinary Sri Lankans of an irresponsible government that bears responsibility for decades of mismanagement wasn’t a revolution. It was instead the result of frustrated Sri Lankans’…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    The End of the Gas Range and Fireplace? Local Governments Ban Natural Gas

    Are you hoping for a shiny gas range in your new home? How about a fireplace as the main attraction of your new living room? If so, don’t move to Los Angeles, because the city is phasing out natural gas hookups in all new residential and commercial buildings effective Jan. 1, 2023. But LA isn’t…
    Rachael Wilfong
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    Gascon Recall Effort Takes Big Step Forward in Los Angeles

    This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement, focusing on prosecutors in Baltimore
    Cully Stimson
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    How Biden’s Energy Policies Harm African Americans

    While gas prices remain at an average of $4.80 a gallon, the Biden administration continues to promote “environmental justice” policies that Donna Jackson says are harming black Americans.  “When you have someone that’s spending more than 30% of their income for gasoline and they’re making choices between whether their kids can have … food to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Nuclear Energy Pact Advances US-Romania Partnership, but More Can Be Done

    Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the growing desire in Europe to move away from Russian energy have injected a new imperative into dialogue on transatlantic energy security and independence. On that important foreign policy front, the United States and Romania are paving a new way forward that will measurably contribute to elevating the 25…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    The Numbers Behind Pennsylvania’s Turmoil Over Transgender Women in Prison

    Almost 200 biological males behind bars in Pennsylvania’s state prisons say they identify as women. A small number of them are seeking a transfer to a women’s prison.  But the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says it doesn’t have information on how many of these biological males who identify as women were convicted of sex crimes. …
    Fred Lucas
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    What Impact Would a Gas Tax ‘Holiday’ Have? Not Much

    President Joe Biden is proposing a new federal holiday. But it’s not the fun kind where you get to caravan to the beach with your family.   In fact, this new holiday makes it more likely you won’t be able to afford that beach trip in the first place.  On Wednesday, the president called on…
    Douglas Blair
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    Democrats’ Disastrous, Capricious Energy Policy

    Democrats have spent decades warning that the United States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs, and cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane—every natural event, really—is now blamed on climate change. We have burdened our children with an irrational dread over their…
    David Harsanyi
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    House Republicans Call for Accountability on ‘Bidenflation’ and Energy Crisis

    Americans are paying about $2,500 more for energy because of Biden administration policies, says former Energy Secretary Rick Perry.  “We became the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas and become a net energy exporter for the first time in 70 years,” Perry told a panel of House Republicans Tuesday during a forum on…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden’s Petro-Sadism Gives American Motorists Growing Gas Pain

    As Americans start the summer driving season this Memorial Day weekend, they face gasoline prices that are memorable—for all the wrong reasons.   The national average for a gallon of regular gas was $2.37 at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration Jan 21, 2021. This metric hit an all-time high of $4.60 on Thursday, AAA reports—up 94%   Biden…
    Deroy Murdock
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