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  • Manhattan Moment: if You Want to Destroy the Economy, Copy Europe’s Energy Policies

    When it comes to energy policy, the European Union — and Germany in particular — have provided the perfect model. Indeed, if U.S. policymakers want to dramatically increase energy prices, destroy jobs and impose hardship on industry, then they should follow the EU’s lead.

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  • Is the Green Energy Bubble Finally Bursting?

    What was notable about the last night’s State of the Union address with regard to energy was not what the president said, it was what he did not say.

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  • The Latest Biofuel Nonsense: Jatropha

    Just when it seemed the hype over biofuels was finally dying down, the New York Times gave biofuel producers a Christmas present.

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  • Don’t Tread on My Light Bulbs

    The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 — one of the most pork-filled bits of federal energy legislation ever passed by Congress — continues to haunt us.

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  • ‘green’ Energy Kills Eagles

    We have to kill eagles in order to save them. That’s now the official policy of the U.S. Interior Department.

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  • Michael Economides, International Energy Expert, Dead at 64

    Michael J. Economides, an international authority on petroleum engineering, died late Saturday evening while onboard a jetliner bound for Santiago, Chile. He was 64.

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  • Wind Power is Brought to Justice

    The Justice Department announced late last week that a subsidiary of Duke Energy has agreed to pay $1 million for killing golden eagles and other federally protected birds at two of the company’s wind projects in Wyoming.

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  • Wind Turbines are Climate-change Scarecrows

    For years, the wind-energy sector and renewable-energy advocates have repeatedly claimed that wind turbines are essential to the fight against carbon dioxide emissions and catastrophic climate change.

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  • Opec is Yesterday’s News

    Forty years have passed since the OPEC oil embargo of 1973. In that time span, the United States has increased its population by about half, nearly tripled its economic output, and nearly doubled its per capita GDP.

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  • Fighting Climate Change by Killing Eagles

    For some environmentalists, the threat of climate change is so great that we must allow wind turbines to kill bald and golden eagles.

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