Watch Barack Obama Destroy Our Country’s Wealth
Yesterday we linked to analysis from Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor David Henderson detailing how the Obama administration’s Cash for Clunkers program destroys, on average,… Read More
Yesterday we linked to analysis from Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor David Henderson detailing how the Obama administration’s Cash for Clunkers program destroys, on average,… Read More
That’s what David Schoenbrod and Richard B. Stewart call Waxman-Markey in their Wall Street Journal op-ed today: As a candidate for president in April 2008,… Read More
Relying heavily on the slots and roulette tables to bring in revenue, it’s no surprise this recession hit Nevada’s economy especially hard: The Silver State’s… Read More
Reuters reports: The British tax office arrested seven people in London on Wednesday in a suspected 38 million pounds ($62.6 million) value-added tax fraud in… Read More
The American taxpayer owned General Motors recently announced that its 2011 Chevrolet Volt will get 230 miles per gallon. While the Obama administration has repeatedly… Read More
On July 15th, Greenpeace said in a press release calling for urgent action: “As permanent ice decreases, we are looking at ice-free summers in the… Read More
Despite the growing rhetoric in favor of affordable and clean energy in the United States, the regulatory trend is moving in the opposite direction. A… Read More
I’m not critical of cap-and-trade. But it has to be used in a targeted and disciplined way, and what has happened is it’s gotten out… Read More
Proponents of climate change legislation argue that a cap and trade will stop the polar ice caps from melting. This is critical to island nations… Read More
In an interview with the Atlantic in July, Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling was quoted: I sometimes wish that we could have, over the… Read More
Poll after poll is demonstrating that the Americans turning out at townhalls across the country are making President Barack Obama’s health care plan less and… Read More
The Wall Street Journal tracks down three of the economists who originally helped come up with the idea of cap and trade and finds that… Read More
In an interview with the Detroit News, Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow said: Climate change is very real. Global warming creates volatility and I feel it… Read More
Read the whole Center for Data Analysis Study here. Highlights include:
In 2007, during his presidential campaign, President Obama told Grist: I believe that, depending on how it is designed, a carbon tax accomplishes much of… Read More
The Washington Post profiles Special Advisor to the President for Green Job Van Jones today. The article is a bit of a puff piece, however… Read More
The Heritage Foundation recently released its economic analysis of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, and unsurprisingly, found devastating results. The goal of cap and… Read More
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the federal deficit grew by another $181 billion in July, bringing the tab to a record $1.3 trillion… Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports: Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials… Read More
Ten Senate Democrats recently expressed their concern over cap and trade legislation that would dramatically increase energy prices and particularly hurt the country’s manufacturing base…. Read More
The idea behind cap and trade is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by putting a price on the right to emit carbon and other greenhouse… Read More
A look at the states hit hardest by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade policies immediately reveals a serious regional divide. The regions worst affected? About half the… Read More
When skyrocketing energy prices took hold of America last summer, it became clear that developing alternative sources of energy was important to our nation’s economic… Read More
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill, a 1,427-page special-interest wish list, was put together in such a rush that the numbers don’t add up. Sum the… Read More
From E&E News: “House Science and Technology Committee yesterday approved legislation to establish a social and behavioral sciences research program at the Energy Department. The… Read More
From the International Business Times: Valero Energy Corp. chief executive officer Bill Klesse hopes the Waxman-Markey bill, which includes a proposal to enact a cap-and-trade… Read More
In what chief executive John K. Welch called “shocking and disappointing,” the Department of Energy denied USEC’s request for $2 billion in loan guarantees for… Read More
The national gas price average is $2.51 for July 28, 2009, far less than the $3.96 it was one year ago to this date, but… Read More
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis explains the truth about global warming in his film Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous… Read More
Do you drive a truck or a farm tractor? If not, do you use any products grown on a farm or shipped by truck? Well,… Read More
