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Energy

Natural Gas Flip-Flop
Big environmental groups were for fracking before they were against it.
Ronald Bailey
July 22, 2011
An Environmentalist Joins the Reality-Based Community
A review of Mark Lynas' The God Species
Ronald Bailey
July 19, 2011
The Future of Nuclear after Fukushima
Samuel Staley
July 16, 2011, 8:14am
The Price of Big Government
Do the benefits ever outweigh the costs?
A. Barton Hinkle
July 8, 2011
Unsafe at Any Speed
The government’s fuel-economy standards should come with a warning label.
A. Barton Hinkle
July 1, 2011
Among the Biotech Conventioneers
A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
Ronald Bailey
June 28, 2011
Charging Ahead
To speed along the success of the electric car, improvements in battery chemistry will matter as much as the price of oil.
Ronald Bailey
May 23, 2011
Plentiful Fuel
The facts about fracking
John Stossel
May 19, 2011
A Better Way to Frack?
A new technique for natural gas extraction eliminates fears about contaminated water and stops opponents in their tracks.
Ronald Bailey
May 17, 2011
The Future of American Energy Policy
Finding middle ground in the battle between drillers and renewers
A. Barton Hinkle
May 13, 2011
Is Inflation Making a Comeback?
The Federal Reserve isn't likely to repeat past mistakes.
Steve Chapman
May 12, 2011
Environmentalists Were For Fracking Before They Were Against It
Shale gas is still the bridge fuel to a low-carbon energy future.
Ronald Bailey
May 10, 2011
Gas Prices and the Market
The government's war on speculators won't make gasoline any cheaper.
John Stossel
May 5, 2011
Rising Gas Prices Good for American Economy & Politics
Samuel Staley
May 5, 2011, 10:58am
Why Isn't Obama Celebrating High Oil Prices?
Understanding the president's environmental inconsistency
David Harsanyi
April 27, 2011
Whither Gasoline Prices?
Prices up, poll numbers down, round up the usual suspects!
Ronald Bailey
April 26, 2011
It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.
Ronald Bailey
April 5, 2011
Nuclear News Meltdown
What the media has gotten right—and wrong—about the Japanese nuclear disaster
S. Robert Lichter
March 31, 2011
The Case for Increasing Domestic Oil Production
Why America can and must produce more oil
Jon Basil Utley
March 30, 2011
Radiation Non-Alert
Japan’s broken nuclear reactors will have no detectable effect on the health of Americans.
Ronald Bailey
March 29, 2011
Japan's Nuclear Nationalism
Japan has pushed nuclear energy hard—at the expense of safety
Shikha Dalmia
March 29, 2011
The Truth About Nuclear Power
Separating economic myth from economic fact
Veronique de Rugy
March 25, 2011
Nuclear Power's Unchanging Plight
Nuclear is the fuel of the future—and always will be
Steve Chapman
March 21, 2011
Let There Be Light
The dim bulbs in Congress have condemned me to pee in the dark.
Jacob Sullum
March 16, 2011
Nuclear Disaster in Japan
Does it show a way forward for nuclear power?
Ronald Bailey
March 15, 2011
Hybrid Cars are Great, But Conventional Vehicles are Catching Up
Adrian Moore
March 14, 2011, 8:27am
Obama's Green-Jobs Fantasy
Don't buy the president's environmental snake oil
John Stossel
March 10, 2011
Oil Price Shocks and the Recession of 2011?
Ten of the last 11 recessions were preceded by oil price hikes.
Ronald Bailey
March 8, 2011
Global Warming By Another Name
Obama's clean energy boondoggle will be expensive for America
Shikha Dalmia
March 7, 2011
Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?
At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?
Tim Cavanaugh
March 4, 2011
The Unseen Consequences of "Green Jobs"
Will investing in clean energy harm the economy?
Ronald Bailey
February 8, 2011
What the Frack!
The war over a natural gas production technology flames up
Ronald Bailey
December 21, 2010
Let Ethanol Subsidies Die
A policy that free marketeers and militant greens can agree on
Ronald Bailey
November 16, 2010
Job-Killing Environmentalists
How the EPA cripples the American economy
Jon Basil Utley
November 10, 2010
California's Prop 23 Offers Voters Choice: Green Lobby or Economic Activity
Adam Summers
November 1, 2010, 4:29pm
Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into the Stone Age?
Predicting the effect of a victory for the G.O.P. "know-nothing flat-earthers" on science policy
Ronald Bailey
October 26, 2010
How to Slash the State
14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
October 5, 2010
Trickle Down Surveillance
The Pennsylvania spying scandal reveals a deeper problem with homeland security.
Matthew Harwood
October 5, 2010
Revving Up Electric Cars With Government Cash
We'll never know if the electric car industry would have been viable without subsidies.
Ronald Bailey
September 28, 2010
The Bioethanol Binge
Fuel made from corn is expensive, inefficient—and undrinkable.
Ronald Bailey
September 21, 2010
Burning Money to Turn Coal into Gas
In which Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey confesses to his role as a petty Igor to Jimmy Carter's energy-regulating Dr. Frankenstein.
Ronald Bailey
September 17, 2010
Wind Turbines Are Beautiful
...but a tad expensive.
Ronald Bailey
September 14, 2010
Gas Prices Explained
Solving the deep mystery of gasoline price fluctuations
Ronald Bailey
August 31, 2010
Confronting Washington's Job Killers
How costly and unnecessary regulations cripple the American economy
Jon Basil Utley
August 13, 2010
Got Environmental Problems? Think Government.
Foreign Policy identifies true environmental catastrophes, but misses the main cause.
Ronald Bailey
July 20, 2010
Forcing Consumers to Buy Renewable Energy
Congress pretends to solve an energy crisis
Ronald Bailey
July 13, 2010
The Government's Catastrophic Response to the Oil Disaster
Washington's reaction is causing greater damage than the event itself.
Jon Basil Utley
July 9, 2010
Sustainability Semantics
John Locke, the U.N., and how to figure out if an acre of land would rather be a swamp or a cornfield
Ronald Bailey
July 6, 2010
Scientific Consensus Redux
Looking back, it turns out that a lot of scientific consensuses were wrong.
Ronald Bailey
June 29, 2010
Don't Nationalize BP
Big Government is no cure for the failure of Big Oil
Shikha Dalmia
June 29, 2010