Posts Tagged 'oil & gas'

The 100-Year Bad Idea

The 100-Year Bad Idea

Intuitively, the electric car makes all kinds of sense. It reduces our dependence on foreign oil, cuts pollution and reduces street noise. So why hasn’t America embraced the electric car?

For the answer, we have to go back more than 100 years when American visionaries saw promise in an electric vehicle.

According to About.com’s coverage of inventors, the first electric vehicle in the United States was invented in 1835 by Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from Brandon, Vt. He built a ...

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Made in America Panel Concurs that Green Energy Shouldn’t Be Given Preference over Fossil Fuels

Made in America Panel Concurs that Green Energy Shouldn’t Be Given  Preference over Fossil Fuels

While Neal Asbury was traveling, co-host Dr. Rich Roffman filled in and opened Neal’s  nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by talking about the Obama administration’s failed energy policy when it comes to fossil fuel.

This lead to Dr. Roffman’s first guest, FreedomWorks’ Senior Fellow Dr. Tom Borelli, who took up the issue of the stalled Keystone XL Pipeline, which is a pipeline system to transport synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen ...

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Why is Obama Getting a Pass on Rising Gas Prices?

Why is Obama Getting a Pass on Rising Gas Prices?

Filling up your car’s gas tank is like going to Las Vegas. You are betting that you can top off the tank before your money runs out. Sticker shock? You bet.

On Sept. 24, AAA reported that the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.81, which is $0.29 more expensive than it was one year ago. When President Barack Obama took office, the average price of a gallon of gas was $1.85. The daily national average ...

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Obama Counting on Rising Oil Prices to Fuel His Green Movement

Obama Counting on Rising Oil Prices to Fuel His Green Movement

Talking about oil prices is like moving through an avalanche zone. One loud outcry and the whole thing collapses. That’s what has happened with our saber rattling over Iran.

Gasoline prices are rapidly rising attributed to uncertainty about Iran and the loss of Iranian oil supplies to the world market or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 17 million barrels of oil, or about 20 percent of total world production, flow each day.

Already, the national average price of ...

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