JUNE 7, 2011 As production slows, the North Slope pipeline could shut down. Perhaps you’ve heard politicians call for “independence” from foreign oil, however unrealistic the goal. What you probably haven’t heard about is the determined environmental campaign, abetted by the Obama Administration, to shut down the 38-year-old Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In its 1980s heyday, the […]
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JUNE 2, 2011 Secretary of Subsidy Obama’s Commerce nominee knows all about corporate welfare. President Obama nominated John Bryson to head the Commerce Department on Tuesday, praising the Californian as “a business leader who understands what it takes to innovate, create jobs and to persevere through tough times.” That’s one way of describing someone with
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Thu, May 26, 2011 NEWS&OBSERVER Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and Richard S. Warr are both associate professors of finance in the Poole College of Management at N.C. State University. Is speculation the reason for oil price hikes? BY SRINIVASAN KRISHNAMURTHY AND RICHARD S. WARR Published in: Other Views RALEIGH There’s been some speculation lately that Wall Street
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MAY 11, 2011 Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk By RUSSELL GOLD As less oil runs through the Alaska Pipeline, the crude it carries is cooling. This is raising the risk of ice formation and waxy buildup. WSJ’s Russell Gold reports from Alaska. FAIRBANKS, Alaska—When the famed Trans Alaska Pipeline carried two million
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May 02, 2011 By Randall Hoven Everyone wants to end subsidies to oil companies, from President Obama to John Boehner and Paul Ryan. My question was “What subsidies?” Remarkably enough, CNN Money provided the answer. It turns out that they are all tax “breaks.” I even hesitate to call them “breaks” because some of them
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Amazingly, an era of energy abundance is upon us, unless politicians and environmentalists get their way. Steven F. Hayward April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 When Andrew Liveris took over as CEO of Dow Chemical at the end of 2004, the company was in the midst of a
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APRIL 23, 2011 By TOM LAURICELLA The U.S. dollar’s downward slide is accelerating as low interest rates, inflation concerns and the massive federal budget deficit undermine the currency. With no relief in sight for the dollar on any of those fronts, the downward pressure on the dollar is widely expected to continue. The dollar fell
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS APRIL 23, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY, MARC CHAMPION, MARGARET COKER, SAM DAGHER, JOE PARKINSON, BILL SPINDLE and ERIK STIER Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesAn Egyptian protester waved his national flag as tens of thousands gathered for a demonstration at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 8, 2011. SIDI BOU ZID, Tunisia—Ali Bouazizi, who owns a
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APRIL 16, 2011 John Watson, Chevron’s CEO, says Americans must stop taking affordable energy for granted. That means more ‘oil, gas and coal.’ By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL San Ramon, Calif. It’s the day after President Obama delivered his most recent vision of America’s energy future, and I’m sitting in the sunny corporate offices of Chevron,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mark Steyn April 9, 2011 4:00 A.M. The Democrats’ solution to the problem is to deny there is one. Hey, it’s the weekend, and everyone’s singing the same maddeningly catchy refrain! Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? Nah, that was last week’s moronic singalong. This week’s is even perkier! “Paul Ryan proposes to end
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