Archive for Energy
Obama’s Crony Investment Failures Continue to Pile Up
According to a new report, yet another company given loans by the Obama administration’s Department of Energy has failed: A Michigan maker of vans for the disabled that received a $50-million Energy Department loan has quietly ceased operation and laid off its staff. Vehicle Production Group, or VPG, stopped operations after finances dipped below the [...]
Morning Action: Getting the Truth About Benghazi is Like Pulling Teeth
BENGHAZI. The White House’s disinformation campaign on Benghazi has continued for nine months, and we still do not know for sure what happened: Dramatic hearings are expected today as Gregory Hicks, a State Department official who was on the ground in Libya during the 9/11 attack when four Americans died, talks to a House panel. … [...]
Obama’s Energy Team Seems to Love Failure
Obama’s Energy Team Seems to Love Failure President Obama’s motto seems to be, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again until you fail an embarrassing number of times. And while you’re at it, waste billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars. It will come as no surprise to conservatives that one of the Obama [...]
The Story of Keystone’s Life
Stories about politicians on the Left obstructing a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline or preventing its progress are a dime a dozen. President Obama is usually the main character – or more specifically the antagonist – but this time, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is center stage. Despite the State Department’s [...]
Pickens Flip Flops on Energy
Eight months ago, T. Boone Pickens stated that the low price of natural gas would create a market incentive for natural gas vehicles to flourish without federal assistance. He’d given up calling for any more tax credits. Sure he wanted them, but he didn’t need them and he didn’t believe that Congress would act. What [...]
Mr. Obama: Keystone Should Not Be a Conundrum for You
For President Obama – someone who presents himself as a champion of the poor and middle class – approving the Keystone XL pipeline should be a no brainer, because the project would create jobs and reduce energy prices. As Heritage has explained, it is the poor who are disproportionately and adversely affected by higher energy [...]
How Much Is A Duck Worth? $1,875
No, this isn’t a story of government waste – at least not in the thousand dollar hammer sense. Rather, it is the value the Canadian government placed on ducks and other waterfowl that “died after landing on a tailings pond owned by one company.” According to an excerpt from a new book on the Keystone [...]
American People Give Keystone Strong Approval
According to a Pew Research Center poll, 66 percent of Americans support the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and this support spans most demographic and partisan groups. This poll stands in contrast to opinions from the left and environmental groups that public opposition to the Keystone pipeline should sway the Obama administration away from [...]
Heritage Action’s CEO Swats Down Carbon Tax
President Obama’s liberal allies in Congress are pressing ahead with draconian carbon tax proposals. This week, Heritage Action and dozens of conservative organizations joined conservative lawmakers in saying NO to a carbon tax. At a press conference, Heritage Action’s CEO Michael Needham explained proponents of a carbon tax understand the best defense is a strong, aggressive offense. [...]
Morning Action: Senators Want to Send the Pork Home
PORK. Senators want to make sure their constituents aren’t deprived of any pork spending that was cut during sequestration. As the clock runs down, the stopgap spending bill before the Senate is looking more and more like a life raft for senators trying to protect home-state interests from the automatic spending cuts ordered under sequestration. [...]
