Energy Issues

The Telescope: Fracking: The Radical Left's Latest Weapon of Fear

16-Jan-2012 | By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief

As a candidate for President, Obama pledged that good science would guide policy in his Administration, but his actions belie his words. He says he's for jobs and for economic recovery, yet he dithers on approval of the Keystone Pipeline.

Investigating Solyndra and what that means for solar

14-Nov-2011 | By U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO)

Congress is asking: Is the administration just guilty of making a poor investment or did it deliberately doll out money for Solyndra to fit an ideological agenda?

Obama's Battery Blunder

20-Jun-2011 | By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief

Like so much of the hope-and-change agenda, the electric car idea isn't off to a very good start, and new research finds it may not be so green after all either.

The Telescope: Pain at the Pump

30-May-2011 | By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief

Ronald Reagan reminded us that you get more of what gets incentivized, and less of what is penalized, and his economic policies proved it. So did the Kennedy and Bush tax cuts. But, Obama and the Democrats seem obsessed with defying history, as well as common-sense, by pillorying oil and gas with more taxes, regulations, and punishing rhetoric.

The Telescope: The Four Horsemen of the Energy Apocalypse; Obama's War on Your Wallet

14-Mar-2011 | By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief

If you are handed the keys to an economy already weak in the knees, why would you give it a big punch in the gut with an anti-job, anti-growth, anti-American energy policy? Look at the evidence.

The Telescope: Obama's War on Domestic Energy - and Jobs

17-Jan-2011 | By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief

From his Hawaii vacation site, Barack Obama said his 2011 resolution was to "make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class." If that's true, then he needs to make an immediate about-face with his domestic energy policy that is killing thousands of jobs and driving energy prices through the roof.