Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: TRANSPARENT “If the clowns in the Congress get brash, We’ll deny and delay, talking trash, And we’ll cover our trail With a fanciful fail: A conveniently timed hard-drive crash.” From the archive IRONIC CURTAIN You’re not …
Iran is threatening to blockade the 20 percent of the world’s oil supply that flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The American economy is struggling from high unemployment. The volatility of oil prices, reflected in periodic spikes at the gas pump, is a threat to productivity. A privately funded pipeline …
American business must comply with a lot of rules. There are over 165,000 pages of federal regulations, almost 20,000 of which were added in the past four years. . . . Psychology, economics, and organizational science, however, suggest that too many regulations—particularly highly detailed regulations—may make society less, rather than …
[W]hile I’m more than happy to spotlight and debunk the enviros’ use of junk science, I’m also more than a little annoyed at the junk science that the shale gas industry itself is apparently quite happy to use against its brethren fossil fuels. If you’ve followed the 21st century environmentalist …
As Congress looks for ways to trim the budget, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) represents an opportunity for up to $9 billion in savings. This outfit has become little more than an advocacy group for trendy leftist causes operating on the public’s dime. Many liberal policies being promoted are so …
The Obama administration is repeating the mistakes of President Jimmy Carter’s failed energy policies, which marred his term and stigmatized the 1970s. They are leading us straight into another national energy disaster. — Steve Forbes
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: ’S MOTHER Oh, thank goodness the government’s there To precaution and make me beware: I’m now starving to death, Blue from holding my breath, ’Cause I’m frightened of food and of air. From the archive: IT’S …
Keeping a campaign vow to bankrupt the industry, the administration revokes the permit for an approved, working coal mine in West Virginia. . . . We have an oil drilling moratorium in parts of the Gulf of Mexico and off both coasts. ANWR and other energy-rich areas in and off …
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: ARTIFICIAL FAMINE There’s no benefit to coal If you cannot dig a hole, And the value is nil Of oil you can’t drill. Who would favor such control? From the archive: WELL, WELL, WELL Well, I’m …
