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  • Peak Oil Cult is Proved Spectacularly Wrong

    These are lousy times to be in the peak oil cult. In December, U.S. oil exports hit a record of 3.6 million barrels per day, thanks in part to soaring domestic petroleum production.

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  • The Tyranny of Oil

    Among the Mount Everest of inanities ever uttered on the subject of energy, the blue-ribbon winner must be this: “the tyranny of oil.”

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  • Rise of the Nuclear Greens

    In theory, the March 11, 2011, disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant should have bolstered environmentalists’ opposition to new nuclear-energy projects.

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  • Is the Keystone Xl Pipeline Worth Getting Arrested For?

    Last week, four dozen opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and environmental activist Bill McKibben, were arrested after they engaged in civil disobedience near the gates of the White House.

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  • A Mayor Unplugged From Reality

    Mayor Bloomberg wants to double down on electric vehicles, but it’s a bad bet for New York.

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  • The Fish and Wildlife Service is Not for the Birds

    On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress, after nearly six years of haggling and numerous design changes, finally approved the Great Seal of the United States.

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  • A Desperate Need for Electricity in China and Other Developing Countries is Fueling Global Coal Use

    Amidst all the hype about renewable energy, worries about climate change, and surging domestic production of natural gas, the global coal market continues to boom like never before.

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  • Harvard Needs Remedial Energy Math

    Investing in and using fossil fuels is so wrong it should be seen as the equivalent of support for apartheid.

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  • America’s Most Favored Industry

    In the history of American business, it’s difficult to find an industry that has enjoyed more political favoritism than the wind-energy sector now enjoys.

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  • Backlash Against Big Wind Continues

    Last month, 60 residents of New York’s Herkimer County filed a lawsuit in Albany that provides yet another example of the growing backlash against the wind-energy sector.

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