Is the High Price of Oil a Conspiracy?
Why is the price of oil a difficult concept for some on the left? They want to come up with some grand conspiracy theory and… Read More
Why is the price of oil a difficult concept for some on the left? They want to come up with some grand conspiracy theory and… Read More
As we continue to chronicle the worldwide nuclear renaissance here on the Foundry and at The Heritage Foundation, it is important to note the outlier… Read More
Remember that little green alien, Gazoo, in the Flintstones that would always interfere in Fred’s life and try to help him out, but in the… Read More
Fareed Zakaria predicts that no matter who is elected presidents in November, that person will face “increasingly grim economic news” due in large part to… Read More
Despite having not built a plant in more than three decades, the technology for nuclear power has come a long way in the United States…. Read More
At the G8 Summit in Japan, there was much talk about global warming, and considerable self-congratulation over the agreement among member nations to reduce greenhouse… Read More
Liberals have been eerily silent about the EPA’s recently leaked plan to control America’s entire energy sector. But they did latch on to one sentence… Read More
The truth is out: Congress’ attempt at “energy security” helped cause a global food crisis. According to a confidential World Bank study, as reported by… Read More
Reps. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) have called out the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for not properly enforcing the Clean Water Act, and… Read More
A few weeks back Heritage hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the economics of building new nuclear power plants in the United States…. Read More
Great moment of honesty at the end of this article in The Hill on liberal energy policy. The body of the article covers how the… Read More
According to the non-partisan Annenberg Political Fact Check, Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan would increase gross tax receipts by $103.3 billion in 2011 alone. That… Read More
While a strong divide remains among countries for support of nuclear power in the European Union, the overall public opinion is shifting in its favor…. Read More
An amusing development on the environmental left is the conflict between anti-nuclear and anti-carbon activists. Nuclear power emits no carbon or greenhouse gasses, so the… Read More
There is no reason to take in the world’s low-level nuclear waste when we have not figured out what to do with our own.” Those… Read More
When companies want to drill or even just explore for valuable minerals and resources, the industry is destroying valuable American soil. On the other hand,… Read More
With gasoline topping $4 a gallon nationally, there’s a lot of speculation as to what actually causes gas prices to soar. Unknowingly, many folks point fingers at… Read More
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a pros and cons piece on nuclear power. The text debate was not an outright endorsement of nuclear energy,… Read More
Current Harvard economics professor and former chief economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan Martin Feldstein explains in the Wall Street Journal how announcing that the… Read More
When it comes to environmental policy, we’ve documented the Center for American Progress’ penchant for distorting reality before. Now they are at it again, this… Read More
Recognizing the need for a substantial increase in clean energy supply to meet both growing demands and carbon dioxide reduction objectives, the Group of Eight… Read More
Liberals in Congress continue to blame anybody but themselves for the high price of energy today. Commenting on the passage of s bill directing the… Read More
A major plank of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) efforts to convince the American people that liberals actually want to reduce gas prices is a bill… Read More
When required to vote on an energy amendment that would have opened up the supply of resources to lower costs to the American consumer, Democrats… Read More
The rise in gas prices is reducing the American consumer’s disposable income, forcing a choice between filling up the tank and going out to dinner… Read More
Here’s a quiz to see if you qualify to be a catastrophe-spotting climate economist: Part I: The cheapest way for John Doe to get to… Read More
Members of Congress have been right on at supporting bad energy policies while dismissing the good ones. For all their rhetoric about supporting the development… Read More
The laundry list of excuses not to expand access to American oil was never convincing even when gas was $2.00 and gets less so as… Read More
There were no fewer than 12 events relating to energy costs on Capitol Hill yesterday: six news conferences and six hearings. Today another nine hearings… Read More
A few days after Senator Barack Obama welcomed the idea of building new commercial nuclear reactors in the United States, he criticized Senator John McCain… Read More
