By Paul Driessen The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic (the ability to visualize 3-D […]

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 Robert Romano Establishment Republicans are in the midst of what can only be described as an intellectual meltdown. They must be. Whether it’s the revelation that American Action Network attempted to get the ever-controversial, exceptionally talented Lady Gaga to perform for $1 million at the Republican National Convention — an institution, to put it mildly, she shares almost nothing in common with. Or […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — “Taxes should hurt.” That is what then-Gov. Ronald Reagan of California said back in the late 1960s. And while these words seem curious coming from the man who lowered the overall income tax […]

By Bill Wilson — Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S . For, contained in that decision is not just […]

By Paul Driessen — An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing , or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of thousands more in hundreds of businesses that supply […]

By Kevin Mooney — With President Obama back in the White House next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to roll out a new regulation to control drilling techniques used to access natural gas. Even so, the expected surge in U.S. oil production […]

By Paul Driessen — Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10 percent of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin . Fracking has also increased US oil production 25 percent since 2008 […]

By Paul Driessen — Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed U.S. employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern […]