E-Team | Commentaries

Californians, Floridians Support Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling, Polls Say

Jason Reid — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:16:01 GMT

Recent polls show the citizens of California and Florida, where opening the Outer Continental Shelf to offshore oil and natural gas exploration has historically been controversial, have changed their minds and now support natural resource recovery.

Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear Power Is Clear Choice For Reliable, Clean Electricity To Power Continued Economic Progress

Jason Reid — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:02:46 GMT

Concern over how America will meet its future energy needs is causing the power industry, politicians and even some environmentalists ask whether new nuclear power plants should be part of the nation’s energy mix. Increasingly, they are answering in the affirmative.

Government Fiddles While America's Forests Burn

Jason Reid — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:31:40 GMT

Images of people being forced to flee their homes before walls of flame near Los Angeles and San Diego have once again thrust the risk of wildfires into the public view. Truth is, the fire season never went away.

Drill, Baby, Drill

Jason Reid — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:24 GMT

Energy is essential in America, and 40% of what we use comes from oil and 23% from natural gas. That comes to about 21 million barrels of oil and 64 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day. Domestic oil production is declining—down nearly half since 1970—so imports are up, from one-third of what we needed in 1970 to just under 60% today. So we need to discover and access more of our own energy resources.

Green Schools Don’t Make Grade

Wales Goriola — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:08:11 GMT

When education is the topic, two issues are constantly at the forefront: Student performance and funding. And every few years some half-baked idea comes along concerning how to improve one or the other that sounds good in theory, but when tested, gets a failing grade.

Greenhouse Gas Bills Just A Bunch Of Hot Air

Wales Goriola — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:27:00 GMT

In early summer, the U.S. Senate considered legislation introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and John Warner, R-Va., that would have established a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 44% in an effort to prevent global warming.

Fluorescent Bulb Follies

Chris McGregor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:44 GMT

How many persons does it take to change a light bulb? Four hundred, if the people in question are members of the United States Congress.

Getting Sensible On Energy

Chris McGregor — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:50:51 GMT

Energy fuels our economy and prosperity, but bad public policies have made it increasingly more difficult to develop our own vast resources. Americans are in danger of falling irreversibly into a dysfunctional culture and fading into the dust of history.

EPA, CBO Document the High Costs of Proposed Global Warming Legislation

Chris McGregor — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:17:51 GMT

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have each released new reports showing global warming legislation would inflict serious economic punishment on American consumers.

A Must-Read Book on Global Warming

Chris McGregor — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:12:52 GMT

The Deniers, a riveting book by Canadian environmental journalist Lawrence Solomon, should be read by anyone who wants to understand where and why substantive debate remains concerning climate change.

The Big Chill

Wales Goriola — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:56:54 GMT

Two years ago a Time magazine’s cover warned us about global warming: “Be Worried . . . Be Very Worried.” We should be even more worried about the supposed global warming legislation the U.S. Senate debated last week, then rejected without a vote.

Energy and the Executive

Ron Lyon — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:29:11 GMT

This election is notable in many ways. For the first time since 1952, neither the president nor the vice president will be his party’s presidential nominee. For the first time since 1960, a sitting U.S. senator will be elected president. And for the first time ever, if the Democrats win, the next president will be female or black.

We Don't Have To Take $4 Gas Prices — We Can Drill

Wales Goriola — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:01:11 GMT

Shock and awe – we are living it! We stand, mouth agape, staring at the pump at $4 gallons and fast-emptying pocketbooks. Even worse, with crude oil already costing more than $120 a barrel, many predict that this wave has yet to crest.

Brazil's Energy Plan Examined

Chris McGregor — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:45:31 GMT

While Brazil’s embrace of ethanol doesn’t have much to teach the United States, its policies regarding domestic oil and gas production do provide an instructive lesson, if only Congress would listen.

Global Warming and Electric Power in Texas

Danny Foreman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:07:00 GMT

Reliability and costs should be the main concerns of Texas policy makers as they shape electric power policies. Potential climate change legislation should not hold up or even influence the Texas’s electric power policy. Instead, they should focus on reliability and cost, according to testimony NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett delivered before the Texas House Select Committee on Electric Generation Capacity and Environmental Effects.