Institute for Energy Research

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. IER maintains that freely-functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today’s global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well-being of individuals and society.

Most Recent Articles by Institute for Energy Research:

Geithner Unwittingly Makes Case for Drill Baby Drill March 9, 2011
Way to boost economic output, provide more affordable energy, and ease the government's fiscal problem is to unshackle the producers of domestic energy
Malthus Lives on With Peak Oil Alarmists March 8, 2011
History has shown time and time again that Malthus was wrong
China is Awash in New Vehicle Sales and Is Investing in North American Oil Projects March 7, 2011
China is fast outpacing the United States in manufacturing, and is garnering the necessary energy assets to keep its economy fueled
Virginia is Not for Ethanol Lovers March 7, 2011
Impact ethanol has on the issues of liability, auto warranties, food inflation, and the “other economically deleterious effects” of subsidized ethanol
Pelosi’s Fake Committee Hearing on Fake Green Job Creation March 4, 2011
Federal spending on green jobs will promote U.S. competitiveness, will preserve national security, will put Americans back to work
Girlie Man Energy March 2, 2011
Move over Al Gore. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new public face of climate alarmism and government-driven energy transformation
Permit? What Permit? March 2, 2011
Instead of winning the future, the White House would rather just win the news cycle. Meanwhile, workers in the Gulf remain without jobs and American consumers are feeling the pain at the gas pump
Secretary Salazar Heads to the Hill to Beg for Bureaucratic Bucks March 2, 2011
Meanwhile, Domestic Energy Production from Alaska to the Gulf Remains at a Standstill
Deathbed Conversion March 2, 2011
Sec. Salazar issues one permit to let some political steam out before getting grilled on Capitol Hill
Natural Gas could Power Europe into the Future February 24, 2011
Home-grown natural gas production could be a real boon for Europe
U.S. Government Shuts Out Increased Alaskan Oil Production February 23, 2011
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), ffshore Alaska and Arctic Ocean areas
Kish: Obama Admin Is Causing Our Energy Problems, Not Solving Them February 23, 2011
“The situation in Libya and the Middle East should serve as a wake-up call to the Obama Administration to stop its uprising against domestic oil production.”
Energy Forecasts Agree on Global Fossil Fuel Domination February 22, 2011
Fossil fuels will continue to produce 75 to 80 percent of the world’s energy by 2030
Obama’s Budget: Central Planning the Nation’s Energy Sources February 19, 2011
Obama Administration's budget proposal follows the standard pattern of taxing energy sources that work, and subsidizing those that don't
Everybody’s Got One: Obama, Salazar Running Out of Excuses February 19, 2011
Obama Administration's war on affordable energy
Greenpeace Still Tilting at Windmills in Spain February 15, 2011
Spain's green layoffs over the last two years have been devastating, 75,000 working contracts have been destroyed
Countries Worry about Rare Earth Metal Supplies February 15, 2011
China controls 97 percent of the global market of rare earths
The True Energy Threat to the United States National Security? February 11, 2011
China controls 96 percent of the global market of rare earths
Annual U.S. Production and Import of Crude Oil February 10, 2011
Peak US Oil production was in 1970, Then President Nixon signs NEPA into law
Secure Oil Resources: Where Can We Get Them? February 10, 2011
The Keystone XL pipeline, Greenhouse Gases from Canadian Oil Sands
EPA Will Destroy Jobs, Not Create Them February 10, 2011
Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
High Speed Tax Payer Money Pit February 8, 2011
$53 billion government 'investment' in high-speed rail
War on Affordable Energy Continues February 5, 2011
Beaufort Sea
Will Unrest in Middle East Finally Awaken Washington to Impacts of its American Energy Embargo? February 3, 2011
Rising Oil Prices, Suez Canal, Yemen, Bab el-Mandeb
Blinder Understates the Cost of a Carbon Tax February 3, 2011
Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Levelized Cost of New Electricity Generating Technologies February 1, 2011
Forecasts of energy supply and demands, National Energy Modeling System
Peak Not: Running Into Oil and Gas February 1, 2011
American Oil Shale, Israeli Natural Gas
Wind Finishes 2010 with Poor Showing in Capacity Increases January 27, 2011
Generating Costs and Subsidies
The Apollo Program and Making Renewables Affordable: Two Completely Different Goals January 27, 2011
The goal of promoting renewables is to make unaffordable and unreliable source of energy affordable and reliable
Obama on Energy: Fancy New Rhetoric, Same Failed Policies January 27, 2011
Obama's harmful policies and misinformed ideology