Energy and the Economy
Who knew? Like natural gas, U.S. crude oil production soaring
America’s recent increase in oil output – not the total production figure, just the increase – is more than the daily production from major oil-producing nations like Venezuela, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Angola, and Libya.
No surprise, CAP wrong once more on Big Oil taxes
The Center for American Progress has a nearly perfect record in its pronouncements about the tax treatment of the oil and gas industry. Without exception, they are always wrong.
U.S. energy future: What choice will we make?
The extraordinary increase in production from the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has been one of the biggest stories of the last few years – and about the only consistently good economic news the nation has seen since the bottom nearly fell out of the economy in 2008.
Will the energy revolution go “North to the Future”?
Though Alaska has long been considered a leading energy-producer, it hasn’t been regarded as a key part of the current, largely shale-driven supply revolution that is creating a new era of American energy abundance. That could soon change.
Once again, oil companies are biggest corporate taxpayers
One of the more overlooked aspects of our industry is that oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil are not just big contributors to the economy, we are also really big taxpayers.
A clarion call for free trade – and a warning if we fail to heed it
International trade emerged as one of the salient issues of 2013, particularly with regard to commercial flows of energy products such as natural gas, coal, and oil.
