Bush: Congress should allow more offshore drilling

The fundamental reason for high gasoline prices is that the supply of oil is not keeping pace with demand. By increasing supply through the use of our domestic resources, we can begin reducing the pressure on prices. So in June, I called on Congress to open up more of America's domestic oil resources for exploration -- including offshore exploration of the Outer Continental Shelf. The American people overwhelmingly support this proposal. But throughout the summer, the leaders of the Democratic Congress refused to allow it to come to a vote. At the very least, Congress should take action on three common-sense energy solutions that enjoy bipartisan support..” [Read More]

Fear Mongering in Denver

George Nathan said, “Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the ideas of more trivial men.” Henry Adams said, “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."  A brief examination of the “facts” in Gore’s Denver speech shows the difference between what science knows and is saying and what a fear monger exploits. it also shows that he is ignored scientific and legal judgments and admonitions.    [Read More]

Gore’s 10 Errors Old and New

Scientific mistakes and exaggerations in an interview in India Today.  Lest the word “dishonestly” seem too strong, the UK High Court found nine errors in Gore’s sci-fi comedy horror movie about the climate that it ordered the UK Government to publish corrections before circulating the film to innocent schoolchildren. Gore, however, has not corrected any of the errors in the movie, which continues to be shown to schoolchildren worldwide.  A politician who is recklessly willing to continue to mislead schoolchildren is a dishonest politician.
Whether Gore likes it or not, the US Constitution guarantees the right of free speech to any citizen or group, whether or not the opinion expressed is one that Gore finds congenial. The attempts by Gore and others to suggest that legitimate scientific enquiry into whether the climate scare has any real scientific foundation ought to be suppressed is an indication of his true motive, which is to bring to an end the freedoms of the West and to enrich himself prodigiously while doing so, via his “green” investment company, whose objective is to profit by the scare which he has himself falsely and dishonestly whipped up.   [Read More]

As Californians waver, Bush increases pressure for coastal drilling

WASHINGTON -- Amid signs that Democratic opposition is weakening, President Bush on Tuesday stepped up pressure on Congress to lift its ban on offshore drilling, saying the damage caused by Hurricane Gustav makes it clear that the nation needs to increase its domestic oil supply. "One thing is for certain: When Congress comes back, they've got to understand that we need more domestic energy, not less ... and one place to find it is offshore America, lands that have been taken off the books, so to speak, by congressional law," Bush said at a White House briefing. [Read More]

HASENMILLER: Do something, anything

With gas prices the way they are, solving America’s energy “crisis” has become one of the top priorities of Americans and, therefore, politicians, this election season. Luckily, Senator Barack Obama has a foolproof plan for dramatically reducing energy costs, should he be elected president.   A wiser plan would be to find a source of energy that could get us to that point. Say, for example, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that there are approximately 7.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the ANWR, with another 2.6 billion recoverable barrels throughout the rest of the coastal plain. This oil, according to USGS, could begin to be recovered in seven to 12 years. We could be well on our way to acquiring this oil, had Senate democrats not voted down President Bush’s 2002 proposal to allow drilling in ANWR.   But Obamoa has a plan, here are a few pieces of that plan, which he has outlined on his campaign Web site. [Read More]

Frogs & Global Warming

Back in 1995, schoolchildren in Minnesota discovered a number of frogs that had more than their normal complement of hind appendages. Further investigations revealed other abnormalities: missing limbs, twisted jaws and declining populations all around the globe. Was it checkout time for toads? The end of the world for amphibians? A harbinger of even more terrible things about to descend on the rest of the biosphere? As described in our Editorial of 1 June 1999, no speculation was too great for the fertile imaginations of scientists and journalists alike. [Read More]

Iceland to start drilling for oil

The Icelandic government has offered 100 licenses to companies to start exploring for oil off the country’s northeastern coast.  Iceland could stand to benefit from potentially vast oil and gas reserves claimed to exist within the Dreki region.  It is clear that considerable oil and gas discoveries could have a vigorous impact on Iceland´s economy,” said the Minister of Industry Ossur Skarphedinsson in a press release. [Read More]

Raising skeptics

Six months ago, residents of the cattle country south of Calgary invited a climate scientist to town to speak to 140 students from J. T. Foster High School in Nanton and bused in from nearby Claresholm. The guest was Tim Ball, a prominent Canadian skeptic of the theory of man-made climate change and perennial bugaboo of the green lobby. [Read More]

When Sarah Palin Took On Harry Reid (repost)

Dear Senate Majority Leader Reid, with those five words, Alaska governor Sarah Palin threw the gauntlet down at the feet of the Democratic Congress. Governor Palin hits Senator Reid right between the eyes: [Read More]

Chicago Tribune: kids cause global warming

On Wednesday The Chicago Tribune turned its pages over to advocacy journalism representing the unfortunate attitude that the West knows best, and the “poorer parts of the world” must conform to the rules established by modern experts to keep the world from falling into a state of calamity. [Read More]

Thirty Years of a Failed Democrat Energy Policy

Millions will tune in to hear Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech as the Democrat Party’s choice to be the next President of the United States. For Americans, the need to pay particular attention to his speech is essential if we are to escape thirty years of a failed Democrat energy policy. [Read More]

Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits

When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent $320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple Ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk wind blowing. [Read More]

Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits

When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent $320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple Ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk wind blowing. [Read More]

Oil drilling permits in Nebraska are at 20-year high

With a barrel of oil nearly $140 and natural gas prices doubling in five years, western Nebraska is seeing its biggest spurt in oil and gas well drilling since the early 1980s. [Read More]

Kelly McParland: Big Oil, petro dictators and the Democratic Party

Democrats hate the oil industry. They really hate it. Speaker after speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Denver demonized the industry as “Big Oil” -- skulking around Washington with lucre dripping from its pockets, buying up Republicans left and right, dictating its own policies and turning a callous eye to the hard-working Americans who have to choose between food and a full gas tank. [Read More]

The truth about ANWR

Here are a few facts you might not have known about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The entire refuge has been portrayed as an idyllic slice of wilderness with lots of wildlife, plants and mountains. The southern three-quarters of ANWR does include some of that, but the northern quarter, where proposed oil drilling would take place, is flat, barren and desolate. [Read More]