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• Obama laughs over spilled milk but fines companies for not producing fictional fuel
  Adam Peshek
  January 30, 2012
• Checking the Facts on President Obama's "Energy Facts"
  Debunking the claims made in the president's most recent campaign ad
  Adam Peshek
  January 24, 2012
• President Obama Wrong on Keystone
  How the president put the interests of a few environmentalists before the interests of the entire nation
  Adam Peshek
  January 18, 2012
• Fulfilling The President's Green Dreams Through Private Competition
  Instead of handing out loans to companies like Solyndra, the government should offer prizes for actual results
  Julian Morris and Adam Peshek
  October 31, 2011
• Rick Perry Makes a Good Plan Sound Bad
  The Texas governor's energy pitch strikes all the wrong notes.
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 25, 2011
• EPA jumps the gun with job-killing rules
  Agency’s new blow to air-quality standard comes two years early
  Adam Peshek
  August 19, 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
• An Environmentalist Joins the Reality-Based Community
  A review of Mark Lynas' The God Species
  Ronald Bailey
  July 19, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Going "Green"
  Separating environmental fact from fiction
  John Stossel
  May 27, 2010
• Cap and Scam
  The trouble with the new Kerry-Lieberman bill
  David Harsanyi
  May 17, 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
• Cap and Trade is Dead
  Long live cap and trade.
  Ronald Bailey
  March 2, 2010
• Everyone Who Knows What They're Talking About Agrees with Me
  And everyone who doesn't wears a tin foil hat
  Ronald Bailey
  February 23, 2010
• Overpaying for Green Power
  Americans are adopting a failed type of clean energy subsidy—the feed-in tariff—just as Europeans are abandoning it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 26, 2010
• Cringing Over Climategate
  A major scandal was exposed. So why won't Obama acknowledge it?
  Shikha Dalmia
  December 4, 2009
• Emissions Cuts Would Cost India Dearly
  The poor can't afford a big tax on energy usage, or a return to the License Raj of times past
  Shikha Dalmia
  December 4, 2009
• Why Poor Countries Won't Curb Emissions
  Massive greenhouse gas reductions would require developing countries to abandon plans to ever conquer poverty
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 15, 2009
• Congress Is Hiding Cap-and-Trade Energy Price Increases
  Central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy
  Ronald Bailey
  June 10, 2009
• President Obama's Energy Plans Have a History of Failure
  Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• What's So Smart About Investing in the Smart Grid?
  It makes no sense to throw $4.5 billion at electric power infrastructure
  Ronald Bailey
  February 6, 2009
• President Obama's Fuel Economy Standard Follies
  Politicians want you to pay more when you drive. They just won't admit it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 27, 2009
• No Biofuels Bailout
  Farm energy pork wastes money and harms the environment
  Ronald Bailey
  January 13, 2009
• The Oil Price Bubble Bursts
  And prices are falling a dollar a day
  November 18, 2008
• California's Proposition 7 Is Flawed
  Plan will actually hurt the state's renewable energy efforts
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  September 18, 2008
• A Carbon-Free Electricity System in 10 Years
  Gore energy plan may signal the twilight of free economies
  Samuel Staley
  July 22, 2008
• Gas Tax Increase or Private Capital?
  China, Australia, European countries are funding infrastructure with private capital
  Samuel Staley
  July 16, 2008
• The Myth of the Gas Price "Crisis"
  Drivers, carmakers and oil companies will respond to the market
  Samuel Staley
  June 19, 2008
• As Gas Prices Rise-We'll Adapt
  Government shouldn't meddle in oil and gas market
  Samuel Staley
  May 22, 2008
• The New New Thing
  Are subsidies wrecking the development of a clean energy source?
  Shikha Dalmia
  March 24, 2008
• Dingell Bells
  Congressional Democrats' Christmas gift for U.S. automakers
  Henry Payne and Shikha Dalmia
  December 31, 2007
• Environmental Timetables Built for Style, Not Substance
  Cutting emissions, reducing use of foreign oil, using more renewable energy requires a lot more than just goals
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  June 12, 2007
• Cow-dung Economics Guide California's Oil Tax Initiative
  An open letter to a tech billionaire who wants to ding oil company profits
  Shikha Dalmia
  September 29, 2006
• Stop Playing Politics With Energy
  It's time to rethink California's prohibition against offshore drilling
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  August 6, 2006
• Have You Hugged a Hummer Today?
  Hybrid vehicles' overall energy costs exceed those of comparable non-hybrids
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 19, 2006
• Gas Prices, Fuel Efficiency Follow the Market
  Hawaii learns with price caps debacle
  Samuel Staley
  May 15, 2006
• Defend America, Buy More Iranian Oil
  Energy independence isn't a good national security strategy
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 5, 2006
• Republicans and Gas Prices: Look in the Mirror
  Abandoning free market principles won't bring down prices at the pump
  Samuel Staley
  April 26, 2006
• California Solar Initiative Is $3 Billion Waste
  Subsidies won't improve effectiveness of solar energy
  Adam Summers
  February 13, 2006
• Presidential Energy
  Higher oil prices, not federal programs, will spur energy innovation
  Ronald Bailey
  February 2, 2006
• The Myth of Energy Deregulation
  California never fully deregulated
  Adam Summers
  November 7, 2005
• Call for Real Electricity Deregulation
  California failing to learn from past
  Adam Summers
  October 25, 2005
• Bureaucracy, Lack of Innovation Led to LA Blackout
  Time to corporatize LA's Department of Water and Power
  Adrian Moore
  September 14, 2005
• Katrina Reveals Gas Price Folly
  Environmentalists, NIMBYs have blocked new oil refineries for 30 years
  Adrian Moore
  September 1, 2005
• Give Consumers Choice on Utilities
  Schwarzenegger has opportunity to empower consumers
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  August 27, 2004
• Analyzing the Blackout Report's Recommendations
  Alternatives for a flexible, dynamic grid
  Lynne Kiesling and Michael Giberson
  July 1, 2004
• Jolted by Gas Prices? Don't Be Too Quick to Cuss Refiners
  CA regulations, not oil companies, create problems
  David Nott
  June 24, 2004
• California's Dueling Electricity Bills
  Customer choice is needed
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 26, 2004
• Hybrids in Carpool Lanes: A Nonstarter
  Several drawbacks to plan
  Robert Poole
  April 14, 2004
• Electricity Consumers Prove Their Smarts
  Customers respond to price changes, choice
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 2, 2004
• Socket to California
  Electricity plan for Gov. Schwarzenegger
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  November 10, 2003
• Demand, Not Supply
  Don't follow California in wake of blackout
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  August 20, 2003
• Rethink the Natural Monopoly Justification of Electricity Regulation
  Blackout shows need for change
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 18, 2003
• Blackout Blame Started as Soon as Lights Went Out
  Time to revise obsolete regulatory structure
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 18, 2003
• The Price Isn't Right
  Price caps fail
  Lynne Kiesling
  June 25, 2003
• Reducing California's Petroleum Dependence
  EC/CARB AB 2076 Report would hurt state
  Joel Schwartz and Lynne Kiesling
  June 10, 2003
• Resurrection of Ethanol Mandates
  Oxygenates offer no environmental benefits
  Joel Schwartz
  June 10, 2003
• Customer Choice Key to CA Energy Crisis
  New York shows how retail choice can work
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 21, 2003
• FERC Report Moves Toward Regulatory Certainty in CA
  Market-based electricity neeeded
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 7, 2003
• Can the Government Pick Technology Winners? Can Anyone?
  Fuel cell powered and hybrid buildings offer several benefits
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 28, 2003
• Hydrogen-Powered Buildings
  Fuel cell powered and hybrid buildings offer several benefits
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 27, 2003
• Scapegoating Isn't an Energy Policy
  Blackouts, high rates are the result of government's poor decisions
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 26, 2003
• Are Hydrogen Fueling Station Subsidies Necessary?
  Forcing hydrogen to follow gasoline model is poor choice
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 26, 2003
• The Economics of Hydrogen: Innovation in Mature and New Technologies
  Hydrogen fuel cells are not silver bullet
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 25, 2003
• The Science of Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  Bush pledges $1.2 billion in subsidies
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 24, 2003
• Fuel-cell Powered PDAs? They're Coming
  Alternatives to batteries are coming
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 17, 2003
• Utilities Takeover by Cities a Mistake
  Lower bills, increased revenue is a mirage
  Adrian Moore
  January 14, 2003
• Keep CA Energy Crisis in Perspective
  Lynne Kiesling
  December 2, 2002
• Electricity Transmission and Rates of Technological Diffusion
  Milestone in transmission wires
  Lynne Kiesling
  December 2, 2002
• Market-Based Electricity Pricing
  Puget Sound Energy's pilot program
  Lynne Kiesling
  November 4, 2002
• Vernon Smith and Retail Electricity Deregulation
  The benefits of choice
  Lynne Kiesling
  October 9, 2002
• California Public Utilities Commission Study Lacking
  Report overlooks many practical and economic questions
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 19, 2002
• Retail Pricing Critical Element for Electricity Industry
  Choice would reduce costs, outages
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 10, 2002
• Oil and Gas Price Stability
  Oil prices have risen 49 percent this year, stabilize this month
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 27, 2002
• Good News on Electricity Competition Front
  Choice lowers PA rates significantly
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 26, 2002
• GAO and the California Energy Crisis
  Study ignores strategic interests of utilities
  Lynne Kiesling
  July 18, 2002
• Consumers, Gas Prices Better Off Without Help From Politicians
  Conspiracy theories, price caps aren't answer
  Lynne Kiesling
  May 14, 2002
• Feds Should Let Gas Prices Run Their Course
  Higher gas prices will transform the automobile industry
  Samuel Staley and Lynne Kiesling
  May 8, 2002
• State Meddling, Not Deregulation, Behind Energy Crunch
  California did not deregulate
  George Passantino
  October 1, 2001
• Oil Markets and the 21st Century War
  Why are prices staying so low?
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 26, 2001
• Energy Crisis: Who Can Keep California Turned On?
  Adrian Moore, Harry Rosenfield debate
  Adrian Moore and Harry Rosenfield
  May 13, 2001
• Price Caps Will Not Solve Electricity Problem
  Price controls distort market
  Adrian Moore and Lynne Kiesling
  April 19, 2001
• Davis Is Overreaching in His Bid for True Grid
  Plan will produce high electricity costs, inept decisions
  Adrian Moore and Lynne Kiesling
  February 27, 2001
• Illinois Can Learn From California Energy Crisis
  Deregulation can get it right
  Lynne Kiesling
  February 20, 2001
• Let the Free Market Rule
  Electricity restructuring caused micromanagement and market distortions
  Adrian Moore
  January 28, 2001
• California: How Not to Deregulate Electricity
  State didn't deregulate, it only restructured
  Adrian Moore
  January 7, 2001

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