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• 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
• 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
• Cap and Trade is Dead
  Long live cap and trade.
  Ronald Bailey
  March 2, 2010
• The Oil Price Bubble Bursts
  And prices are falling a dollar a day
  November 18, 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
• 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
• 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
• Presidential Energy
  Higher oil prices, not federal programs, will spur energy innovation
  Ronald Bailey
  February 2, 2006
• Katrina Reveals Gas Price Folly
  Environmentalists, NIMBYs have blocked new oil refineries for 30 years
  Adrian Moore
  September 1, 2005
• Jolted by Gas Prices? Don't Be Too Quick to Cuss Refiners
  CA regulations, not oil companies, create problems
  David Nott
  June 24, 2004
• 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
• Oil and Gas Price Stability
  Oil prices have risen 49 percent this year, stabilize this month
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 27, 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
• Oil Markets and the 21st Century War
  Why are prices staying so low?
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 26, 2001

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