John C. Felmy from API on smart energy policy

    I am out here at CPAC 2010 in Washington, DC networking with some of the other talented RS editors and a host of other bloggers. I had the chance to talk to John C. Felmy who is chief economist at API about energy policy and moving forward with smart policies. A lot of people like to claim that conservatives don’t have any solutions – that we are | Read More »

    Cap and Trade: a job killer

    You don’t have to be an economist to understand the economic situation.  Unemployment has hit double digits in many states and is growing (in Ohio: 340,000 jobs lost since Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher took office) and everyone is paying the price.    The stimulus has accomplished nothing (Again, in Ohio, in the neighborhood of 100,000 jobs lost since its passage) and yet the Democrats | Read More »

    The Other Halliburton

    Full disclosure: API covered the costs associated with my attending the OTC. Today as part of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas I had the opportunity to visit Halliburton offices here in Houston.  As one of the other bloggers said today, yes, that Halliburton.  And the title of this post refers to this rather significant marketing/PR challenge this company has to deal with these | Read More »

    GOP Senators undermine energy focus

    Believe it or not, I am frequently the one arguing in favor of compromise and coalition building in order to get things done. But a modicum of party discipline and common sense has to be involved or strategic compromise becomes surrender. It seems a few GOP Senators can’t see the difference. Kimberley A. Strassel brings us the ugly truth: Politics has its puzzling moments. John | Read More »