Obama’s green-tinted glasses distort energy picture

    If you’ve used put gasoline in your tank recently, you’ve noticed the per gallon price steadily rising: The national average pump price increased nearly 3 cents overnight to $2.391 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Gasoline prices ticked higher every day this month. A good part of the reason for the escalation is seasonal in nature. Pump | Read More »

    Raising Shell with the 9th Circuit Court

    Shell Oil wanted to drill in the Beaufort Sea region of the Artic Ocean and submitted its drilling plan with the U.S. Minerals Management Service, which analyzed the company’s exploratory plan, determined that it would have minimal impact on marine mammals and eskimo subsistence activities and issued its approval in February 2007. But several environmental groups, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and the North Slope Borough (county) filed | Read More »

    War of the Worlds

    Disgraced Democrat former senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards, before he disgraced himself, was fond of saying that there were two Americas. There are also two worlds, or at least two. There are actually many worlds, most of them invented by liberals who are long on fantasies and feelings but short on facts. But let’s just consider two of all the possible worlds. One | Read More »

    The Beauty of Sarah Palin

    I’m not talking about the mere physical attractiveness of Alaska’s governor, though she has been blessed with an abundance of that gift. Palin was a competitor in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant after being named Miss Wasilla earlier that year, where she also won Miss Congeniality honors. No, what I’m dicussing here is beauty in the political sense – as in the beauty of | Read More »

    Drill for National Security

    The opponents of increased domestic drilling complain that it will take too many years before the oil it produces will get to market, and that it will make very little difference in the price of gasoline at the pump. Both arguments are totally without merit, as I have shown here, here and here. But let’s forget all that for the moment. Though high prices at | Read More »

    The ten-year lie

    While channel surfing last night, I caught this moveon.org attack ad aimed at GOP nominee in waiting John McCain:

    Debunking the latest liberal myth

    Liberal myths often quickly become talking points for the Democrats, and even as conservatives punch holes in them, the Left simply patches them up and floats them again. Such is the case with the latest liberal myth/Democrat talking point – that oil companies aren’t drilling on the lands they currently hold: “Big Oil is more interested in pumping up prices and pumping up their own | Read More »

    Impeachnuts Should Listen to Ordinary Americans

    I call them the impeachnuts. They’re a small but zealous group of members of the congress who are obsessed with their hatred of President Bush and members of his administration. Displaying the late-stage symptoms of BADS (Bush Administration Derangemnt syndrome), they’ve been grandstanding with the prospects of impeaching the president and vice president. Never mind that the odds of actually convincing the full House to | Read More »