Israel: The New Petro Power?

Trevor Loudon New Zeal 6/23/2011

I so hope this comes to pass.

Oil might not be as abundant as sea water, but there’s enough to last for hundreds of years, if only governments would get out of the way.

Thanks to Shona.

Update: Poorly-Timed Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil Release Could Cost U.S. Taxpayers $1.5 […]

House Republicans announce ‘drill here, drill now’ initiative

Carol Greenberg Conservative Outlooks 3/10/2011

By now you all are probably tired of hearing me harp on the energy issue, however, let’s face it. The US’ dependency on foreign oil hits all sectors of the country: our national security, our economics, our jobs, our businesses and the amount of dollars consumers have to spend. With […]

Critics Assail Salazar’s Oil-Production Statistics

Phil Taylor The New York Times 3/4/2011

Republicans and oil-state Democrats are challenging Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s comments this week that oil and gas production in the United States has increased even as permitting for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico remains at a virtual standstill.

While Interior on Monday issued the first deepwater […]

New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields

Associated Press via FoxNews.com 2/10/2011

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.

Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil […]

Soros steps up his war against American energy independence

Ed Lasky The American Thinker 8/9/2010

George Soros is continuing his assault on America’s shale gas industry. His latest step is to mobilize MoveOn.Org, a so-called 527 group that he liberally funds, to join forces with the very left-wing Working Families Party of New York in an effort to stop the process of hydrofracking: a […]

Why is the EPA studying hydraulic fracturing?

Via Kosmosnet 4/8/2010

“For environmental reasons of course. Scattered, unconfirmed and wholly anecdotal claims that hydraulic fracturing has contaminated drinking water in a few locations across the nation spurred the EPA into action. From a scientific point of view, it’s hard to understand why the EPA would lend any credibility to these tales, much less […]

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