Please stay off of the gas
Rolling into the busy summer driving season, Congress just can’t seem to resist the urge to scapegoat oil companies. Just before Memorial Day weekend, Congress held another in what has become a seemingly interminable number of hearings into “big oil’s” role in high gasoline prices and threatening to punish the industry for making a profit. Though many Americans seem to feel low gasoline prices are an American birthright, congressional solutions are likely to make our problems worse.
Posted: 05/31/2007 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Inconvenient truths
The largest single factor driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film.
Posted: 05/10/2007 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming