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Get Ready for $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2011 Comment (1)Gregg Laskoski is a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com
With about 30 days left in the year many Americans are pleasantly surprised to see the price at the pump in steady decline even as crude oil is trading at $95 per barrel or higher. The national average price of gasoline at $3.30 per gallon has fallen by 15 cents a gallon in the past month.
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Energy Production Is Turning Economic Lights Back On
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (4)The faint rumble of an economic recovery can be heard in certain sections of the country where new energy technologies are opening up vast reserves of oil and natural gas. These epicenters of job creation not only promise to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, but they offer the possibility that America will become--once again--the leading energy producer in the world.
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A Gift for the Winter Season: Natural Gas
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 CommentAs families around America gather around dinner tables this holiday season, topics like the weather, Black Friday sales, or the economy are probably more likely to come up in conversation than the issue of fracking. And for that reason, this might be a good winter for the natural gas industry—at least as far as public opinion goes.
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Even Democrats Criticize Obama on Energy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2011 Comment (1)Thomas Pyle is the president of the Institute for Energy Research.
Currently, only 2.2 percent of federal offshore lands are leased for oil and natural gas production.Even though energy production creates real jobs that aren't dependent on taxpayer subsidies, it is unlikely that more than 2.2 percent of federal offshore lands will be leased anytime soon, especially with the new 5-year offshore drilling plan announced by the Obama administration last week.
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High Thanksgiving Gas Prices Could Sabotage Black Friday
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2011 Comment (1)Patrick DeHaan is a senior analyst at gasbuddy.com.
Mixed bag of emotions on gasoline prices as Thanksgiving looms.
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Obama Decision to Delay Keystone Costs Jobs and Energy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2011 Comment (3)After more than three years of trying to decide whether the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada was in the "national interest," the Obama administration on Thursday once again delayed the pipeline. By caving to special interest groups, it means the United States will be importing more oil from the Middle East instead of our closest ally. It also means postponing 20,000 shovel-ready jobs.
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Keystone XL Pipeline Delay Complicates Obama's Political Problems
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (4)The Obama administration may now be taking a safer middle ground on the Keystone XL pipeline project. But the controversy won't just disappear before the 2012 election and could still cost the president politically.
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To Understand Gas Prices, a Little Paranoia Might Help
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2011 Comment (5)Last week my colleague, Patrick DeHaan, discussed in this blogspace how retail competition works as an integral component in setting local prices, and we agreed that while competition represents an important part of the picture, perhaps it's only part of an essentially lengthier discussion on the many other variables simultaneously at work.
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White House Pushes Back on Solyndra Subpoena
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2011 Comment (3)The White House pushed back hard against House Republicans Friday over their recent subpoena for internal documents related to the Solyndra loan guarantee.
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EPA Head Misleads The Public in Her Crusade against Coal
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2011 Comment (8)Thomas Pyle is the president of the Institute for Energy Research.
Last week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke at an event sponsored by the Sierra Club and made some serious accusations against coal-fired power plants. Jackson said that "In their [coal-fired power plants] entire history—50, 60, 70 years, or even 30 . . . they never found the time or the reason to clean up their act," (subscription-only). As the administration's head environmental regulator, Jackson has to know that this statement is blatantly false.
