While you were off on your summer staycation, a small group of sunny-faced activists hit the road in a big blue tour bus, armed with clipboards and talking points.
Welcome aboard the American Energy Express!
With job-killing legislation advancing through Congress that will fundamentally alter the American way of life, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), a non-partisan, [...]

The Accra-based IMANI Center for Policy & Education just launched a new online “red flag alert” service to keep its readers on top of developing stories and emerging trends related to IMANI’s focus areas without having to wade through long policy papers.
Click here for an alert on the status of oil production in Uganda and [...]

Above is a new video from the Institute for Energy Research, making the case for offshore drilling. Atlas’s senior fellow Deroy Murdock also has been making waves recently on this topic. His Audacity of Nope piece recently was distributed throughout the U.S. Congress via a “Dear Colleague” letter by Republican Whip Roy Blunt. The piece [...]

Our friend Paul Driessen has a piece on Townhall about “The Social Responsibility of Coal.” He points out that in public policy debates: “‘Corporate social responsibility’ is often defined and used by activist groups [that] want to engineer a ‘wholesale transformation’ of our energy and economic system…” Among such groups, there is little [...]

Friends of Atlas involved with the Free Minds Association in Azerbaijan and the Azeri Web site, write about “Oil Hegemony” — explaining that booming oil revenues tend to make governments less accountable. If you read Azeri, you can read the whole thing here.‚ In the meantime, here are a couple key quotes translated to [...]

I had never heard of the existence of cars that run entirely on compressed air – apparently now on the road in India via Tata Motors – until they were mentioned in an aside during a teleconference discussion of energy policy hosted by the Heartland Institute. I gather that air-cars are only suitable for short-distance [...]

This campaign season has been pretty light on actual policy ideas. Today, Robert Samuelson has a piece that notes  It is one of our fondest political myths that elections allow us collectively to settle thebig issues. The truth is that there’s often a bipartisan consensus to avoid the big issues, because they involve unpopular choices [...]

While much of the conversation in Washington is (rightly) focused on energy policies and what can be done to increase supply in the wake of fast-growing global demand for oil, there is another reason for rising oil prices. It is the flight from the dollar to hard assets (look at the performance of gold lately). [...]