The last time gasoline prices were as high as they are today was in 2008, and Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, made it clear that one of his major policy goals was to make fossil fuels expensive, so that "alternative" and "green" sources of energy would be more economically competitive. Three months before he was confirmed as secretary of energy, Steven Chu confirmed in an interview that "somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. With polls making it crystal clear that Americans are not pleased with spiking gasoline prices, President Obama has deployed what might be called the "octopus strategy." When an octopus is threatened, one of its survival tools is to dispense a cloud of ink to confound predators. Likewise, in ...
Under the stimulus legislation, the Department of Energy is responsible for spending $16.8 billion classified as follows: Weatherization ($5.0 billion), State Energy Program ($3.1 billion), Advanced Batteries Manufacturing ($2.0 billion), and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ($6.7 billion). Another $16 billion is classified as Environmental Management ($6.0 billion), Smart Grid and related programs ($4.5 billion), Fossil Energy R & D ($3.4 billion), Science ($1.6 billion), and APRA-E ($0.4 billion). The Obama Administration may have signaled a desire to move away from the very controversial issue of nuclear plant construction. This is an issue on which public opinion over a period of years had about two thirds of the population in favor and about one third against. The key is ...
For the last 30 years, I have been involved in finding solutions to America's long-term energy independence. I ran for Congress because I am concerned about America's economic future and because Washington needs real-world solutions, not radical bureaucratic ideology. With unemployment still nearly at 9 percent, gasoline prices already at $4 a gallon in some states and growing uncertainty and unrest in the Middle East, American families and our economy continue to bear the burden of higher energy costs. As long as the Obama administration continues to block and delay American energy production, there will be no end in sight and relief at the pump. Drilling moratoria promulgated by the administration have had and will continue to have a significant adverse impact on our country's economi...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, a longtime believer in "clean coal," is launching an ambitious and expensive plan to help the energy industry lock climate-changing gases from coal-fired power plants deep underground. If we can develop the technology to capture the carbon pollution released by coal, it can create jobs and provide energy well into the future," the president said in February at a meeting with Republican and Democratic governors, including those from coal- mining states.
Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm and Devon Energy Executive Chairman Larry Nichols on Tuesday called for the continuation of energy industry tax breaks that they said encourage domestic oil and gas production and create jobs. The energy industry leaders made their remarks at a two-day summit at the University of Oklahoma.
After President Obama's Andrews Air Force Base "energy pol-icy" statement Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Sal- azar said that last year he received more than a half-million citizen comments on lease sales. He didn't say that while hundreds of thousands of those comments urged support for more domestic energy production, last week's policy announcement offers less. My state, Alaska, is 20 percent the size of America, has about three-fourths of the nation's coastline and embraces the bulk of federal lands in protected status (53 percent of America's wilderness, 90 percent of its national parkland and 80 percent of its national wildlife refuge acreage). We're America's great hope for energy and natural-resource development. Less than one-half of 1 percent of Alaska's lands are privately ...
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. spent a half-hour Friday in Washington, D.C., with the head of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team -- but not because he's vying for a spot in the new administration. The Republican governor said that while he was contacted earlier this month by a representative of the new Democratic president, the focus of Friday's meeting was to pitch a proposed new national energy policy formulated by the Western Governors' Association.
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