Why I Won’t Support Spending Another $3.5 TrillionSenator Joe Manchin, The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2021 Amid inflation, debt and the inevitability of future crises, Congress needs to take a strategic pause. The nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future. Yet some in Congress have a strange belief there is … read more

NEWS OF THE DAY: A Cleaner Oil Industry: Driven by Data and Common SensePaul Steidler, Real Clear Energy, September 1, 2021 The West’s largest oil companies – Exxon Mobil, BP, and Chevron  – have made pledges to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions soon and will remain under strong pressure from environmentalists and investors to do so. By combining the engineering prowess at … read more

NEWS OF THE DAY: Industry must find ways to survive increasingly authoritarian U.S. governmentDavid Blackmon, World Oil, August 2021 Writing back in January about President Joe Biden’s order to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline, I warned that that action was just an opening volley in a war on the domestic oil and gas business that would only intensify over the … read more