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Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. Paul Driessen is author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power, Black death

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Curbing Obama Power Grabs

You’ve got to admire the sheer audacity: Democratic Senator Mark Begich telling Alaska voters that he stood up to President Obama and fought for oil drilling and jobs in his state. Maybe he had a few chats.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2014

We need some regulatory patriotism!

It's no mystery why American companies have stockpiled over $2 trillion of overseas earnings in foreign bank accounts. If they bring it to the United States, the IRS would grab 35% of it. That's the US corporate tax rate--the highest in the developed world, double the average in EU nations.
- Sunday, October 12, 2014


Breaking Russia's energy stranglehold

European Union nations want to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and providing the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. However, they are worried about biting the hand that feeds them--with the natural gas that fuels much of its economy.
- Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Protect the poor--from climate change policies

Cornwall Alliance
In a more rational, moral, compassionate, scientifically literate world, this Cornwall declaration would not be needed. It assesses the "far-reaching, costly policies" that the world's governments are adopting, supposedly to prevent global warming and climate change. It calls on governments to focus instead on protecting the poor, who desperately need the affordable energy that those policies circumscribe.
- Friday, September 26, 2014

What really drives anti-fracking zealots?

Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America's fracking revolution.
  • The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) next year, reducing America's crude oil imports to 21% of domestic demand, the lowest level since 1968. Output from fracked wells represents 43% of all US oil production and 67% of natural gas production; "frack oil" could hit 10 million bopd by 2016, the Energy Information Administration says.
- Monday, September 22, 2014

EPA’s phony “environmental justice” caper

When it comes to energy, climate change, justice and transparency, the Obama Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency want it every possible way. Their only consistency is their double standards and their determination to slash hydrocarbon use, ensure that electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket,” expand federal government command and control, and “fundamentally transform” America.
- Monday, September 8, 2014

Obama AWOL again – on energy terrorism

Four news stories in four days sum up the Obama presidency and help explain why the world and U.S. economy are in such a mess. President Obama just returned from his two-week beach and golf vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. It took him a month from the time special forces located journalist James Foley to approve a rescue mission – by which time Foley had been moved (and was subsequently beheaded).
- Monday, September 1, 2014

Trampling on Coal Country families

Trampling on Coal Country families
Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth's perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America's fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and "fundamentally transform" our economic, social, legal and constitutional system.
- Tuesday, August 19, 2014

“Climate-smart” policies for Africa are stupid, and immoral

The 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Obama this past week brought together the largest-ever gathering of African government officials in Washington, DC. They discussed ways to bolster trade and investment by American companies on a continent where a billion people – including 200 million aged 15 to 24 – are becoming wealthier and better educated.
- Sunday, August 10, 2014

Who’s really waging the ‘war on science’?

Left-leaning environmentalists, media and academics have long railed against the alleged conservative “war on science.” They augment this vitriol with substantial money, books, documentaries and conference sessions devoted to “protecting” global warming alarmists from supposed “harassment” by climate chaos skeptics, whom they accuse of wanting to conduct “fishing expeditions” of alarmist emails and “rifle” their file cabinets in search of juicy material (which might expose collusion or manipulated science).
- Monday, July 28, 2014

Killing marine life with ethanol

Ethanol and other biofuel mandates and subsidies got started when politicians bought into claims that we are rapidly depleting our petroleum, and fossil-fuel-driven global warming is boiling the planet.
- Monday, July 21, 2014


Holding Greenpeace accountable

Fossil fuel and insurance company executives “could face personal liability for funding climate denialism and opposing policies to fight climate change,” Greenpeace recently warned several corporations. In a letter co-signed by WWF International and the Center for International Environmental Law, the Rainbow Warriors ($155 million in 2013 global income) suggested that legal action might be possible.
- Saturday, July 5, 2014

Breaking EPA's climate science secrecy barriers

Can you imagine telling the IRS you don't need to complete all their forms or provide records to back up your claim for a tax refund? Or saying your company's assurances that its medical products are safe and effective should satisfy the FDA? Especially if some of your data don't actually support your claims--or you "can't find" key data, research and other records, because your hard drive conveniently crashed? But, you tell them, people you paid to review your information said it's accurate, so there's no problem.
- Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Executive fiats in the other Washington

Progressives believe in free speech, robust debate, sound science and economics, transparency, government by the people and especially compassion for the poor-- except when they don't. These days, their commitment to these principles seems to be at low ebb... in both Washingtons.
- Monday, June 23, 2014

Fixing our dictatorial EPA

Last year, Congress enacted 72 new laws and federal agencies promulgated 3,659 new rules, imposing $1.86 trillion in annual regulatory compliance costs on American businesses and families. It’s hardly surprising that America’s economy shrank by 1% the first quarter of 2014, our labor participation rate is a miserable 63% and real unemployment stands at 12-23% (and even worse for blacks and Hispanics).
- Thursday, June 19, 2014

Hollywood's hydrocarbon hypocrisy

Several Hollywood elites were recently caught red-handed on videotape, agreeing to take money from a Middle Eastern oil sheikh for another anti-fracking movie. Their actions were shameful, but they felt no shame--only anger at the folks who caught them in the act. Indeed, the ironies are matched only by their hypocrisy and disdainful disregard for the consequences of their anti-fracking fervor.
- Monday, June 9, 2014

Just Assume We Have a Climate Crisis

Climate modelers and disaster proponents remind me of four guys who were marooned on an island, after their plane went down. The engineer began drawing plans for a boat; the lumberjack cut trees to build it; the pilot plotted a course to the nearest known civilization. But the economist just sat there. The exasperated workers asked him why he wasn’t helping.
- Sunday, June 1, 2014


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