The View Through Debbie Stabenow’s Windshield
Whether or not Marie Antoinette said rioting French peasants upset about the shortage of bread to feed their families should “eat cake” instead is not important. The idea that she…
The Biden Administration’s Misguided Railroad Mandate
Reciprocal switching already occurs based on private agreements between railroads. But Democrats, first under Obama and now under Biden, have wanted to give the government more power to determine switching…
Biden’s Climate Policies Damage America and Don’t Help the Climate
Fighting climate change is at the center of President Joe Biden’s administration, because, Biden claims, “[Climate change is] the number one issue facing humanity.” Biden’s solution, as outlined at the…
Joe Biden’s ’12 Days of Crises’
While President Joe Biden and his administration tout what they say are successes as the end of the president’s first year in office looms, the spin from Psaki and others…
Electric Vehicle Charger Subsidies Are Bad Energy Policy
Both the so-called CLEAN Future Act and the Biden-Harris Administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure package, if enacted, will impose upon America substantially more expensive and less reliable energy, and it will…
A Carbon Tax Would Harm Working-Class Americans
U.S. Representatives Steve Scalise (R-La.) and David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-W.Va.) introduced a resolution that, if passed, would express the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental…
Biden’s E.V. Bill Punishes the Poor
Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign season, then-candidate Biden continually promised that he would not raise taxes on households making less than $400,000 per year. It was a promise echoed again…
The Green Dream: What AOC’s Signature Policy Really Aims to Accomplish
At a rally in Washington, D.C., this week, Senator Edward Markey described the scope of his Green New Deal: “Racial injustice, economic inequality, housing, education, jobs, and climate change. It is…
“The CLEAN Future Act” Guarantees Dramatically More Expensive and Less Reliable Energy
Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee have introduced a relabeled and slightly revised bill from the past and given it the inaccurate and misleading name “the CLEAN Future…
Can We Trust Joe Biden To Keep America Energy Independent?
Up until the Trump presidency, politicians regularly talked about the need to make America energy independent. That talk has stopped, largely because the goal has been reached. The U.S. is…
Increasingly Cheap Nat Gas Will Help Fuel Econ. Recovery
After months of sheltering in place, Americans are finally returning to their favorite restaurants, stores, and barbershops. As of June 1, all 50 states have started to reopen. We may…
Mariner East charges point to public office activism
In his final attempt to torpedo Pennsylvania’s Mariner East II Pipeline, now-former Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan filed criminal charges last month against security contractors hired to secure pipeline…
A slippery slope in bringing criminal charges in pipeline probe
In his final attempt to torpedo Pennsylvania’s Mariner East 2 pipeline, now-former Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan filed criminal charges against security contractors hired to secure pipeline construction sites.…
Harvard quietly backtracks on air pollution-coronavirus deaths link
Harvard researchers publicly walked back Monday a key finding in a highly touted but hotly contested paper linking air pollution exposure to deaths from the novel coronavirus, slashing the estimated mortality…
The Drop In Oil Prices: Good Or Bad?
Crude oil prices fell dramatically over the weekend. Between March 4 and March 9, Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell from $51.13 to $34.36 per barrel, a drop of 32.8…