Energy

Here is President Obama speaking in Ohio Thursday:

We also need to keep investing in clean energy like wind power and solar power.

… And as long as I’m President, we…

Correction: Silly me, I assumed that shale oil and oil shale were the same thing. They are not. The technology improvements in fracking refer to shale oil, which is different than oil shale. I have modified the post below to use the unambiguous and clearer term…

Today the Administration released their Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future: One-Year Progress Report.

Almost every time President Obama talks about energy he mentions wind and solar power. He used to talk about nuclear power…

In his weekly address President Obama said:

But you and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices — not when consume 20 percent of the world’s oil. We need an…

Yesterday’s report by Standard & Poor’s on the U.S. government’s credit rating is driving headlines. You can learn a lot more from reading the primary source document than from news coverage of it.

Here’s the President, speaking yesterday at a town hall meeting in Fairless Hills, PA. See if you can spot his new theme, as pointed out by POLITICO. It’s not too difficult.

THE PRESIDENT: It’s a plan that says we’re…

On page 188 of the President’s budget, in Table S-8, we see a section titled “Reauthorize Surface Transportation.” That section includes $235 B of spending over the next decade. It also includes a line labeled “Bipartisan financing for Transportation Trust Fund,” and…

I’m going to start occasionally recommending other reading. Much of it will focus on the site I run for the Hoover Institution, Advancing a Free Society. Today, however, I want to promote two excellent things I found that help understand…

Yesterday Meet the Press host David Gregory asked White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley if the President was considering releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR):

MR. GREGORY: But what about the shorter…