By Marita Noon The whole idea of Green energy — renewable resources — grew out of an energy reality that was much different from today’s. It was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that solar panels began popping up on rooftops and “gasohol” subsidies were […]

By Paul Driessen Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves – leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy. These and other renewable energy programs may have originated for the best of […]

By Paul Driessen This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab oil embargo , a painful episode in American history that had a profound effect on both the economy and psyche of the United States. It began in mid-October 1973, following the U.S. decision to resupply Israel […]

By Alan Caruba In the past whenever gas prices began to climb, then whoever was president usually got the blame for it, but there never was anything he could do about it. The price at the pump was and is dependent on global factors. What […]

By Paul Driessen Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy people greeted us. New cars, trucks, hotels and restaurants sparkled in a clean, bustling downtown. New roofs topped barns and houses, while […]

By ALG Staff As the House prepares to vote on a Farm Bill this week, there’s been an interesting development in American sugar policy. Check out this joint letter spearheaded by the American Conservative Union promoting a zero-for-zero sugar policy. Under the proposal, America will […]

By David Rothbard and Craig Rucker “We can’t have an energy strategy that traps us in the past,” President Obama proclaimed in March 2012. “We need an energy strategy for the future — an all-of-the-above strategy for the Twenty-First Century that develops every source of […]

By Paul Driessen President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the Administration’s decidedly anti-hydrocarbon agenda. The Heritage Foundation has calculated […]

By Paul Driessen — Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new 54.5 mpg standards for cars […]

By Paul Driessen — Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is — or isn’t — sustainable? […]