Necessary Roughness

UPI reports that the Democrat-controlled Senate has rejected a Republican proposal to expand offshore and gas drilling.

If there is a crash rather than free movement to alternative sources of energy and material, it is because we have brought too much regulation upon ourselves.

This can’t make Obama and Clinton happy. They don’t get to confiscate those “windfall profits” and plow them into their own environmental interests.

Bloomberg reports that oil prices are climbing in the wake of a pipeline shutdown in the United Kingdom and rebels attacking another pipeline in Nigeria. OPEC is keeping production down, and Iran wants oil to climb still northward.
Meanwhile NBC can burn up energy promoting a Green Week, part of which is advertising energy-efficient products like [...]

Good news in the old neighborhood. The Missouri House is holding hearings to see if Missouri’s 10% ethanol requirement needs to be repealed, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The study compared Missouri’s average gasoline price in 2007 to the average price of E-10. In that year, the difference was about 8 cents per gallon. The [...]