10 Ways Obama Could Reduce Gasoline Prices Now

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  February 25th at 02:00 PM  | 

Tulsa World headline: Obama: No magic bullet to lower gas prices WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there is no easy answer to the problem of rising energy prices, dismissing Republican plans to address the problem as little more than gimmicks. “We know there’s no silver bullet that will bring down gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil overnight,” Obama said Saturday in | Read More »

More Mush from the Times

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  January 7th at 02:00 PM  | 

In a New York Times editorial celebrating the recent demise of the ethanol subsidy, the Old Grey Lady once again descends into outright falsehood to malign the industry that Progressives love to hate: Congress should now focus on the oil industry, which has long enjoyed a web of arcane and unnecessary tax breaks — deductions for well depletion and intangible drilling costs. They are unique | Read More »

How Much Will It Cost to Repeal the ‘Oil Subsidies’?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 9th at 03:30 PM  | 

This week, the Senate is set to consider the repeal of certain provisions of the tax code as they relate to the oil and gas industry. By styling these tax breaks as “subsidies”, the Administration and other opponents of the industry wrongly equate them with the benefits enjoyed by ethanol, wind and solar energy. But the tax credits for alternative energy production are true subsidies, | Read More »

Never Let A Good Crisis, etc. (Oil Spill Edition)

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 02:45 PM  | 

In his two most recent appointments to his presidential commission on the BP oil spill, President Obama reveals that he’s got waaaay bigger fish to fry than finding out what went wrong of the Deepwater Horizon, and fixing it. Obama’s Oil Panel May Tackle Energy, Environment The new presidential commission investigating the Gulf oil spill will include two experts who have been active on the | Read More »