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Oil and Gas

The Facts Behind EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Adam Peshek
April 3, 2012, 5:35pm
Americans Remain Supportive of Natural Gas
Adam Peshek
March 23, 2012, 12:21pm
Oil and Gas Production Up, But Don't Thank the Feds
Adam Peshek
February 28, 2012, 3:54pm
Poll Finds Americans Want Keystone Pipeline
Adam Peshek
February 24, 2012, 9:59am
Rick Perry Makes a Good Plan Sound Bad
The Texas governor's energy pitch strikes all the wrong notes.
Shikha Dalmia
October 25, 2011
The High Cost of Low Fuel Bills
New efficiency standards for cars may cost lives
John Stossel
August 11, 2011
Conflict Oil or Canadian Oil?
A second dispatch from Alberta's oil sands.
Ronald Bailey
August 10, 2011
The Man-Made Miracle of Oil from Sand
A dispatch from Alberta's oil sands
Ronald Bailey
August 9, 2011
The Coming Autopocalypse
The Obama administration's proposed CAFE rules declare a war on cars
Shikha Dalmia
July 26, 2011
Natural Gas Flip-Flop
Big environmental groups were for fracking before they were against it.
Ronald Bailey
July 22, 2011
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
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
The Case for Increasing Domestic Oil Production
Why America can and must produce more oil
Jon Basil Utley
March 30, 2011
Nuclear Power's Unchanging Plight
Nuclear is the fuel of the future—and always will be
Steve Chapman
March 21, 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
Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?
At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?
Tim Cavanaugh
March 4, 2011
What the Frack!
The war over a natural gas production technology flames up
Ronald Bailey
December 21, 2010
Job-Killing Environmentalists
How the EPA cripples the American economy
Jon Basil Utley
November 10, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
Don't Nationalize BP
Big Government is no cure for the failure of Big Oil
Shikha Dalmia
June 29, 2010
Is Obama an Anglophobe?
The British press certainly thinks so
Michael C. Moynihan
June 23, 2010
Obama, Lord of the Rings
The Gulf oil spill and the temptations of executive power
David Harsanyi
June 23, 2010
Oil Gushes and Power Rushes
Obama's "$20 billion shakedown" exemplifies his lawlessness.
Jacob Sullum
June 23, 2010
As the Spill Expands, So Does Presidential Power
More fallout from the BP oil spill
Steve Chapman
June 17, 2010
Who’s Liable for the Gulf Oil Spill? You Are.
Government failure and the Gulf oil spill catastrophe
Ronald Bailey
June 15, 2010
Weighing the Benefits & Costs of Offshore Drilling
Offshore drilling remains a risk well worth taking, even in the wake of the oil spill disaster.
Ronald Bailey
May 4, 2010
Peak Everything?
Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorus?
Ronald Bailey
April 27, 2010
White House Makes Fuel Economy Mandates Official
Samuel Staley
April 1, 2010, 2:30pm
Cap and Trade is Dead
Long live cap and trade.
Ronald Bailey
March 2, 2010
Obama's Alternative Energy Fiasco
Samuel Staley
May 17, 2009, 1:22pm
Has U.S. Demand for Oil Peaked?
Samuel Staley
April 13, 2009, 10:29am