President Obama Misleads on Oil “Tax Breaks"
President Obama has become the anti-energy president through his determined effort to regulate, tax, and spend in order to prop up the most expensive, least reliable energies at the expense of...
View ArticleFERC's Regulatory Mission Creep
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—and predecessor, the Federal Power Commission (FPC)—have been a force against competition and market entrepreneurship since the 1930s. Despite the...
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ICYMI: Federal Foot-Dragging Puts Boom Towns On Hold
Institute for Energy Research CEO and Founder Robert Bradley published an op-ed yesterday in Investor’s Business Daily. The text of the op-ed follows: Federal Delays On Drilling Permits Put Boom Towns...
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Federal Lands Deserve an Energy Boom, Too
Institute for Energy Research Founder and CEO Robert Bradley published an op-ed this week on Forbes.com. The text of the op-ed follows: Federal Lands Deserve an Energy Boom Too By Robert Bradley Jr....
View ArticleExporting U.S. Crude Oil: A Triple Win
Exporting U.S. Crude Oil: A Triple Win “The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties,” Adam Smith observed in the...
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ICYMI: Oil-Export Ban is Holding America Back
Institute for Energy Research CEO and Founder Robert Bradley published an op-ed last week on Forbes.com titled “Oil Export Ban: Holding America Back”. The text of the op-ed follows: Oil Export Ban:...
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Three Cheers for Holiday Lighting!
Environmentalists critical of electrified America must have mixed emotions this time of the year. It may be the season of good cheer and goodwill toward all, but it is also the time of the most...
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Forbes Op-Ed: Can The ‘Tyranny Of The Status Quo’ Be Broken?
Robert Bradley, Jr., IER’s Founder and CEO, recently penned an op-ed titled, “The Renewable Fuel Standard: Can The ‘Tyranny Of The Status Quo’ Be Broken?” Below is the text of the piece: 4/10/2015...
View ArticleJames Hansen’s Failed Ultimatums: A Free Market, Anyone?
Predictions and ultimatums by learned, qualified scientists should be taken seriously. In the case of the father of the global warming scare, James Hansen, formerly a climate scientist with NASA/GISS,...
View ArticleClimate Optimism, Energy Realism for the Next Generation
I recently addressed a group of highly motivated high school students about environmental and energy issues relating to climate change. The event, Local to Global Politics: Climate Change, was hosted...
View ArticleAl Gore’s Energy Problems
Climate alarmism was launched almost 30 years ago when the featured scientist before Al Gore’s Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources testified that he was “99 percent certain” human activity...
View ArticleScary Sea Level Rise? Check Your Science
“Sea level has been overall rising since the last ice age, with some ups and downs. Sea level has been rising for the past 200 years….Humans are not going to stop sea level rise on the time scale of a...
View ArticleKathleen Hartnett White: A Scholar for CEQ
“Public discourse about global warming and climate policies ignores fundamental physical realities about energy and overlooks the profound benefits of carbon-rich energy.” —Stephen Moore and Kathleen...
View ArticleThree Cheers for Holiday Lighting!
Environmentalists critical of electrified America must have mixed emotions this time of the year. It may be the season of good cheer and goodwill toward all, but it is also the time of the most...
View ArticleA New, Unanticipated Oil World
A letter in a November 1999 edition of the Oil & Gas Journal, “Running Out of Oil,” written by an industry consultant, stated 11 facts and predictions. Far from unusual, his facts were generally...
View ArticleOil and Energy Security: Another Fallen “Market Failure”
“Rising Oil Prices Give U.S. An Edge in Global Energy,” a front-page headline in the New York Times read last week. And with that, another “market failure” argument against the consumer-driven U.S....
View ArticleClimate Math: Adaptation, Not Mitigation
“[The Paris climate accord] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bull— for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target’ … is just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest...
View ArticleNo, China Will Not Outsmart America’s Energy Renaissance
Imagine a centrally planned economy out-thinking and out-performing a consumer-driven, free-market one. That is the prognostication, even hope, of Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the program on Energy and...
View ArticleA New Low in the Media’s War on Fracking
This article originally appeared at Forbes. Rolling Stone just dropped a bombshell — or so it claims in its article, “‘The Harms of Fracking’: New Report Details Increased Risks of Asthma, Birth...
View ArticleClimate Litigation: Grasping at Tort Straws
Billions of consumers purchase and use fossil fuels for safe, comfortable, prosperous living each day. Presumably, it is all voluntary and legal. Countless entities and workers provide oil, natural...
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