Obama’s Clueless Energy Policy

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  January 26th at 04:00 PM  | 

From the President’s State of the Union Address: We need to get behind this [green] innovation. And to help pay for it, I’m asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but they’re doing just fine on their own. So instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy, let’s invest in tomorrow’s. Now, clean energy | Read More »

Revisiting Obama’s ‘Tough Decisions’ on Offshore Drilling

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  March 30th at 12:36 AM  | 

Remember the State of the Union, way back in January? President Obama shared a vision of our nation’s energy future: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and | Read More »

SOTU From An Energy Perspective

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  January 30th at 01:00 PM  | 

Wednesday’s State of the Union address was as much about the subjects the President avoided as about the issues or policies he proposed. The word “wind” occurs not once in the speech. References to solar energy have to do with the number of jobs created building solar panels. Gone are the promises of a future of Rainbows, Unicorns and Magic Windmills; the Administration seems to | Read More »