Writings by Topic: Energy

Title Date
Pennsylvania Proposes a Carbon Tax March 14, 2024
Backlash Against "Big" Is Smallminded January 26, 2024
The U.S. in the E.U.? (1 comment) December 8, 2023
The Most Important News Story of the Month (2 comments) December 8, 2023
Laudate Deum October 5, 2023
Midterm Election 2022 Takeaways (10 comments) November 9, 2022
Chinese Group Undermines U.S. Rare Earth Element Production (1 comment) July 1, 2022
How's That Divestment Working Out? April 24, 2022
Solar Stimulus Risks Repeat of Failures (1 comment) November 19, 2021
Massachusetts Bans Light Bulbs (2 comments) November 11, 2021
David Brooks Versus the New York Times April 23, 2021
"Clean" Energy Economy (1 comment) January 11, 2021
Tesla Joining the S and P 500 Is an Immigrant Success Story (1 comment) November 25, 2020
How Regulation Made Pickup Trucks So Big (1 comment) August 2, 2020
Max Singer February 6, 2020
'States' Rights' Is Cry of the Democrats September 24, 2019
Trump Versus the Elites June 19, 2019
In N.H. With Beto O'Rourke March 26, 2019
Solar Mandate (1 comment) October 30, 2018
More on Schumer and Gas Prices May 31, 2018
Democratic Hypocrisy on Gas Prices (1 comment) May 30, 2018
El-Erian To the Fed? November 15, 2017
Climate Change and 'Just War' (5 comments) September 6, 2017
The Tesla Subsidy (5 comments) August 1, 2017
Mexico Gas Privatization (3 comments) July 14, 2017
On Global Warming, a Classic Times Frame (1 comment) April 8, 2016
SunEdison Shakeout March 30, 2016
Thank Larry Tribe (2 comments) February 11, 2016
Good Cruz News February 2, 2016
Bush at Freedom Partners (3 comments) August 3, 2015
Hillary Clinton's Solar Panel Plan July 28, 2015
The Scale of Energy Demand (2 comments) July 9, 2015
Israel's Natural Gas Shakedown July 8, 2015
Hydraulic Fracturing Energy Opportunity June 11, 2015
Musk's Subsidies May 31, 2015
Profile in Courage April 13, 2015
Lew's Meeting With Steyer (1 comment) April 8, 2015
Walmart's Wind March 25, 2015
Al Gore Is Right (3 comments) March 16, 2015
Asness on Climate Change (1 comment) March 11, 2015
Buffett's Letter March 3, 2015
Rattner Versus Pethokoukis (1 comment) January 30, 2015
Keystone Eminent Domain (4 comments) January 23, 2015
The Government's $3.2 Trillion Loan Portfolio (1 comment) January 5, 2015
A Bad News Day December 17, 2014
Amazon's New York Tax Credits December 8, 2014
More Subsidized Failure (1 comment) November 25, 2014
Hydrogen Cars November 18, 2014
Rockefeller Energy Divestment (1 comment) September 22, 2014
Two From Richard Epstein September 16, 2014
Peter Thiel September 15, 2014
Sosnik on Declining Trust in Government July 28, 2014
Christie's Credits, and Cuomo's July 16, 2014
Saving Lives and Fighting Poverty With Fossil Fuels July 2, 2014
El-Erian on Coal (1 comment) May 8, 2014
How a Republican Governor Killed the Keystone Pipeline (2 comments) April 25, 2014
Reid's Chinese Solar Deal (3 comments) April 14, 2014
Paul Ryan's Budget April 1, 2014
Al Gore, Electric Bus Lobbyist March 26, 2014
Richard Epstein on the California Carbon Tax March 18, 2014
Bill Gates on Welfare, Energy, and God (3 comments) March 18, 2014
Cuomo, DiNapoli, and Chevron March 4, 2014
Tom Steyer Profile February 20, 2014
Fisker's Bankruptcy December 6, 2013
Green Energy November 26, 2013
Winglets (2 comments) October 24, 2013
Faust on Fossil Fuels October 9, 2013
USA Today on Ethanol (2 comments) August 16, 2013
Obama Endorses Divestment From Fossil Fuels July 9, 2013
Lomborg on Energy (1 comment) June 26, 2013
Free Market Environmentalism June 14, 2013
Imagine That! (1 comment) May 8, 2013
Review: Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What American Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas
by Erica Grieder
May 3, 2013
From the Climate Change Activists (1 comment) May 2, 2013
Weiner's Work April 30, 2013
Buffett's Buses (1 comment) April 29, 2013
Sell the TVA (1 comment) April 11, 2013
Steyer Versus Lynch April 11, 2013
Fisker's Future March 29, 2013
How Suntech Snookered Yale's Swensen (2 comments) March 20, 2013
Green Jobs March 14, 2013
Buffett Berkshire Shareholder Letter (1 comment) March 5, 2013
Fuel Pricing in New Jersey March 4, 2013
Tesla Talks Back (2 comments) February 14, 2013
An Annotated State of the Union (1 comment) February 13, 2013
Polar Bear Population Boom (1 comment) February 5, 2013
Obama's Inaugural Reviews January 23, 2013
Green Machine January 16, 2013
A "Green" Inaugural Ball December 14, 2012
Sununu on Energy (3 comments) December 10, 2012
Divesting From Fossil Fuels November 27, 2012
Natural Gas Exports (1 comment) November 16, 2012
How China Woos Customers (1 comment) November 16, 2012
Read It Here First (1 comment) November 4, 2012
John Cochrane on the Election and Growth November 2, 2012
A Stoll-Wilkinson Colloquy (1 comment) November 2, 2012
Romney on Climate Change (3 comments) October 30, 2012
Obama's Second-Term Agenda (3 comments) October 22, 2012
Another Government-Backed Solar Bankruptcy October 19, 2012
A123's Bankruptcy October 16, 2012
How Al Gore Got Rich (2 comments) October 11, 2012
Review: Better Capitalism: Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy (2 comments)
by Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
September 25, 2012
Brown-Warren Debate (9 comments) September 20, 2012
Thoughts on the Final Night of the Republican Convention August 31, 2012
Chinese Company Buys A123 August 9, 2012
The Williston Boom (1 comment) July 27, 2012
O'Shaughnessy Dam July 26, 2012
Freemont and Williston (2 comments) July 23, 2012
Richard Epstein on the FDA (1 comment) June 26, 2012
Natural Gas Exports (1 comment) June 21, 2012
Light Bulb Law (2 comments) June 6, 2012
Another Government-Backed Solar Bankruptcy June 5, 2012
More Solar Tariffs May 18, 2012
Markey's Natural Gas Protectionism (3 comments) May 9, 2012
Obama and the Oil Speculators (1 comment) April 19, 2012
Leucadia's Letter (2 comments) April 16, 2012
Caroline Baum on Obama and Oil (1 comment) April 5, 2012
Read It Here First April 4, 2012
Solar Tariff (1 comment) March 21, 2012
The Jevons Paradox (1 comment) March 15, 2012
Catsimatidis's Business (1 comment) March 15, 2012
ABC News on Electric Cars March 6, 2012
More Subsidized Solar Layoffs (3 comments) March 1, 2012
Best Argument Yet Against Keystone (3 comments) February 29, 2012
Misleading Fuel Economy Ratings (1 comment) February 29, 2012
Buffett 2012 Annual Letter (2 comments) February 26, 2012
Richard Epstein on Oil Prices (2 comments) February 22, 2012
Fisker, A123 Under Stress February 13, 2012
'Reasonable Profits Board' (4 comments) February 6, 2012
Obama State of the Union (9 comments) January 24, 2012
Robert Samuelson on Keystone XL (4 comments) January 20, 2012
Fine for Not Using Nonexistent Biofuel January 10, 2012
FDA Formula December 28, 2011
Navy Pays $15 a Gallon For 'Green' Fuel December 13, 2011
Windmill Flameout December 10, 2011
Richard Epstein on CAFE Standards (4 comments) December 6, 2011
Oil Baron Tex Richman (5 comments) December 3, 2011
Chevy Volt (4 comments) December 2, 2011
Myhrvold on Alternative Energy (5 comments) November 28, 2011
Profile in Courage (1 comment) November 10, 2011
Easton, Postrel Win Bastiat Prize (1 comment) November 3, 2011
Now Beacon Power October 31, 2011
Keystone Oil Pipeline (1 comment) October 27, 2011
Ethanol Fail (1 comment) October 27, 2011
Obama's News Conference (1 comment) October 6, 2011
Solar Regulation October 6, 2011
How Tomblin Won October 5, 2011
Republicans and Solyndra October 1, 2011
Bloomberg Applauds Plant Closures, Rate Increases (2 comments) September 16, 2011
Cost-Free Job-Creating Idea No. 4 September 14, 2011
USA Today on Solyndra (1 comment) September 14, 2011
Review: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind In The World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (3 comments)
by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
September 9, 2011
Chu's Solyndra Rush Job (1 comment) September 1, 2011
Solyndra's Bankruptcy (4 comments) August 31, 2011
More on Israel's 'Wealth Gap' August 18, 2011
Evergreen Solar Goes Bankrupt August 15, 2011
Buffett's BYD Goes Gasoline (2 comments) August 11, 2011
27 Ideas For Jobs and Growth (14 comments) August 5, 2011
Obama's Bundlers July 22, 2011
Vineyard Gazette Sails Right (1 comment) July 21, 2011
Solar Dims July 21, 2011
It's Not the Subsidy, It's the Mandate July 21, 2011
Bill Gates on Energy July 20, 2011
Loose Ends July 18, 2011
Obama's Press Conference (3 comments) July 15, 2011
Solar Sense From Socialist Sanders (2 comments) July 13, 2011
Solar Home Price Premium (1 comment) July 11, 2011
Buffett and ADM July 8, 2011
USA Today's Lightbulb Law Bias (4 comments) July 8, 2011
More on the NYT Natural Gas Story (1 comment) July 1, 2011
Obama's Press Conference (6 comments) June 29, 2011
NYT on Natural Gas and Fracking June 28, 2011
Washington Post on Obama's Green Cronyism June 27, 2011
White House Solar Promise Unkept June 21, 2011
Cree (1 comment) June 14, 2011
Crony Capitalism With a Touch of Green June 10, 2011
Texas Passes Light Bulb Law (1 comment) June 8, 2011
Richard Epstein on Fracking June 8, 2011
Bright Idea June 6, 2011
Obama and Climate Change (1 comment) June 6, 2011
More on Tornadoes and Global Warming (1 comment) June 3, 2011
Light Bulb Laws (7 comments) June 2, 2011
Leonhardt's Label (1 comment) June 1, 2011
Sanders on Speculators (1 comment) May 28, 2011
Both Parties Do It May 25, 2011
Comment of the Day May 25, 2011
Tornadoes and Climate Change (4 comments) May 24, 2011
Scapegoating Speculators (2 comments) May 20, 2011
Inhofe on Energy May 17, 2011
USA Today on Oil Taxes (1 comment) May 16, 2011
Who Is Harold Ford Jr.? May 10, 2011
Review: Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Walmart's Green Revolution (1 comment)
by Edward Humes
May 10, 2011
Senator Sununu on Oil Company Taxes May 9, 2011
League of Women Voters Vs. Scott Brown (1 comment) May 4, 2011
ExxonMobil's Earnings (2 comments) April 28, 2011
Bernanke's Press Conference April 27, 2011
Boehner on Taxing Oil and Gas (2 comments) April 26, 2011
Pricelock for Gas April 26, 2011
Obama Targets Speculators, Oil, Pharma (3 comments) April 20, 2011
Taxes of the Times, V (1 comment) April 13, 2011
Sowell on Spending (1 comment) April 12, 2011
The Behavioral Economics of Gas Prices (1 comment) April 11, 2011
Education and Unemployment (2 comments) April 11, 2011
Delahunt's Revolving Door April 7, 2011
Trains, Buses, and Regulatory Failure (1 comment) April 4, 2011
ABC News on Green Energy (1 comment) March 30, 2011
Drilling in Brazil March 28, 2011
Wind Energy Fail (5 comments) March 23, 2011
David Warsh on the Nanny State March 22, 2011
Richard Epstein on Nuclear Power March 22, 2011
Wind Energy Cronyism in Maryland March 17, 2011
Haley Barbour on Government Growth March 14, 2011
Infrastructure Bank March 12, 2011
Baum on Oil Prices (1 comment) March 11, 2011
Bjorn Lomborg on Ethanol (1 comment) March 10, 2011
Martha's Vineyard Gas Prices (2 comments) March 1, 2011
Soros's Green Energy Fund February 24, 2011
Friedman on a Gas Tax (4 comments) February 23, 2011
One More Point on Obama's Press Conference (1 comment) February 16, 2011
Christie's Energy Master Plan February 11, 2011
Lomborg on Green Jobs (2 comments) February 10, 2011
Read It Here First (1 comment) February 10, 2011
Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Shutters (3 comments) February 9, 2011
Deepwater Drilling Ban February 4, 2011
Review: Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (2 comments)
by Edward Glaeser
February 2, 2011
Economic Causes of the Egyptian Revolution (1 comment) February 2, 2011
Newt Gingrich on Ethanol (11 comments) January 30, 2011
"Winning the Future" (1 comment) January 30, 2011
Obama's State of the Union (6 comments) January 25, 2011
Obama's Second-Favorite CEO (1 comment) January 24, 2011
Israel's Energy Tax Increase (1 comment) January 24, 2011
Obama and Immelt (5 comments) January 21, 2011
Solar Permits (5 comments) January 20, 2011
Evergreen Solar Closes Plant (1 comment) January 12, 2011
Review: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (3 comments)
by Seth Mnookin
January 10, 2011
Worst Investments of 2010 December 30, 2010
Free Market Environmentalism December 28, 2010
Alternative Energy in Maine (2 comments) December 21, 2010
Unintended Consequences (1 comment) December 20, 2010
Krauthammer on the Tax Cuts (1 comment) December 17, 2010
Banning Failure (1 comment) December 8, 2010
Wind Revolving Door November 29, 2010
Buffett, Gates, and Turner on 'This Week' November 28, 2010
Mickey Kaus on Government Motors November 23, 2010
George Gilder on Green Jobs November 16, 2010
NYT on Cool It the Movie November 12, 2010
Shaking Down Google November 11, 2010
Deficit Commission Report November 10, 2010
Cool It The Movie (1 comment) November 10, 2010
Impending Tax Increases (3 comments) November 8, 2010
The WSJ on Wind November 8, 2010
Nadler's View (2 comments) November 4, 2010
DNC Commercial (1 comment) October 31, 2010
Buffett and BYD (1 comment) October 28, 2010
A Term Limit for Speaker Boehner? (1 comment) October 26, 2010
Gates, Brin Back Carbon Limits (1 comment) October 25, 2010
Moe Tucker's Politics October 24, 2010
Review: You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government
by Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
October 24, 2010
Bill Gates on Ethanol October 15, 2010
Reid Angle Debate (3 comments) October 14, 2010
The Sierra Club's Foreign Funding October 11, 2010
The Pay Czar's Pay October 9, 2010
Haley Barbour's Green Jobs Strategy (2 comments) October 8, 2010
More From Britain's 'Conservatives' October 4, 2010
Wall Street Money Never Sleeps (1 comment) October 3, 2010
Obama and BrightSource (2 comments) October 2, 2010
A123 Battery (2 comments) September 23, 2010
Obama's Weekly Address September 19, 2010
BYD Buffett Subsidy (2 comments) September 8, 2010
Israel's Energy Power Grab August 31, 2010
Jim Tisch in Bloomberg News August 26, 2010
Speaking of Global Warming (2 comments) August 25, 2010
More on James Cameron and Global Warming Skeptics August 25, 2010
The New Yorker on David and Charles Koch (18 comments) August 23, 2010
James Cameron on Global Warming Skeptics (1 comment) August 23, 2010
Used Car Prices Jump 30% August 23, 2010
Siding With Salamanders (2 comments) August 21, 2010
Wind Energy Controversy Gusts in Advance of President's Vacation August 18, 2010
Obama's Austin Speech (7 comments) August 11, 2010
The BP Shakedown (1 comment) July 29, 2010
Taxi Owners Fight Hybrid Mandate July 28, 2010
Ecuador Nationalizes Oil July 26, 2010
Krauthammer on the Lame Ducks July 23, 2010
The 'After the Election' Caucus July 23, 2010
McConnell and Toyota (2 comments) July 19, 2010
Why Emerson Electric Is Moving to Asia (5 comments) July 13, 2010
Thomas Donohue and the Chamber of Commerce July 12, 2010
ENI's Moral Balancing July 9, 2010
Another Anti-Wind Campaign July 7, 2010
An Anti-Wind Campaign (1 comment) July 7, 2010
Cap and Tax Ads (1 comment) July 6, 2010
Financial "Reform" Bill (1 comment) June 28, 2010
EPA Regulates Spilled Milk (1 comment) June 28, 2010
Soros and Petrobras (3 comments) June 23, 2010
Thomas Sowell on Obama (3 comments) June 22, 2010
The Environmentalists on BP June 20, 2010
Obama on BP's Strength (1 comment) June 18, 2010
Republican Leaders on the BP 'Shakedown' (2 comments) June 18, 2010
A 'Stalinist Show Trial' June 18, 2010
Oil as the New Tobacco June 17, 2010
Keith Hennessey on Oil Drilling Safety (3 comments) June 17, 2010
BP and Jamie Gorelick (1 comment) June 17, 2010
BP CEO Suicide June 17, 2010
Bloomberg on Bullying BP June 17, 2010
Jonah Goldberg on Biofuels June 16, 2010
Richard Epstein on the Oil Spill (2 comments) June 16, 2010
Obama's Oil Spill Speech June 16, 2010
The WSJ on 'Clean' Energy Subsidies June 16, 2010
Brownstein, Hyatt's Stimulus Boast June 15, 2010
Hayek and the Gulf Spill (2 comments) June 14, 2010
BP, the SEC, and the Press June 14, 2010
BP, Obama, and the Economy (1 comment) June 11, 2010
Contango's Kenneth Peak on the Gulf of Mexico (2 comments) June 10, 2010
Falklands Fight June 9, 2010
Holman Jenkins on Obama and Oil June 9, 2010
Richard Epstein on the Oil Spill June 8, 2010
Obama Goes Ass-Kicking June 8, 2010
The Oil-Drilling Endgame (2 comments) June 7, 2010
Cap and Tax Cronies June 6, 2010
NYT on Diana Taylor's Senate Run June 4, 2010
The Justice Department and ObamaCare June 3, 2010
Seize BP? (8 comments) June 1, 2010
Capitalism v. Socialism in the Oil Spill (3 comments) May 27, 2010
Obama Press Conference Transcript Highlights (1 comment) May 27, 2010
Timothy Carney on Brownstein, Hyatt (2 comments) May 26, 2010
Schumer and GM's Hydrogen Cells May 25, 2010
Obama EPA Chief To Headline Fundraiser (3 comments) May 25, 2010
The Wall Street Journal on the Latest 'Stimulus' (1 comment) May 25, 2010
Porn-Watching Regulators (2 comments) May 25, 2010
GE Means Government May 11, 2010
Richard Epstein on the Oil Spill (1 comment) May 11, 2010
The Economist on BP May 6, 2010
Polls on Offshore Oil Drilling May 6, 2010
Dan Henninger on the 'Permanent Smackdown' (1 comment) May 6, 2010
Sierra Club on Offshore Drilling May 6, 2010
Blankley on the Boot and BP May 5, 2010
BP and The Nation May 4, 2010
Ethanol and Offshore Drilling (1 comment) May 4, 2010
BP, Obama, and the Rule of Law (5 comments) May 4, 2010
Maine Wind Revolving Door May 3, 2010
GM's Misleading Repayment Claim May 3, 2010
Reform Jews on Offshore Drilling (2 comments) April 30, 2010
Spain and 'Green Jobs' April 30, 2010
Good Morning April 30, 2010
Tea Party for Democratic Incumbent (1 comment) April 22, 2010
A "Reasonable Profit' (4 comments) April 21, 2010
Read It Here First April 7, 2010
Coal Mine Regulation Budgets (1 comment) April 6, 2010
Investing in Carbon Credits or Carbon Offsets April 6, 2010
Wind Power In Maine April 3, 2010
Father Knows Best April 2, 2010
Is GNPH the New BRIC? (1 comment) April 1, 2010
Exodus and Freedom March 29, 2010
Russia Will Drill Off Cuba March 19, 2010
Make $51,000, Pay No Federal Tax (4 comments) March 11, 2010
Obama's Missed Deadlines March 11, 2010
Another $117 Million For First Wind March 8, 2010
Mitch Daniels on the State of the Nation (3 comments) March 8, 2010
Checking In With the California Bureau March 3, 2010
Steve Levy Interview (2 comments) February 17, 2010
The Professor's Climate Change Retreat (1 comment) February 15, 2010
Anthem Blue Cross Premium Increase Irks Sebelius (5 comments) February 10, 2010
AAA Against Ethanol February 5, 2010
Obama and Toyota (2 comments) February 2, 2010
The Great Paradox of Future Capitalism (1 comment) January 28, 2010
Obama Lunches With Dimon, Tillerson (2 comments) January 28, 2010
Obama and the Lobbyists January 28, 2010
What a Phony (5 comments) January 27, 2010
ACLU Mulls Campign Finance Reversal January 24, 2010
Republicans Fundraise Using 'Census' Deception (2 comments) January 22, 2010
Bill Gates's New Web Site January 21, 2010
China Ups Stake in PetroChina January 6, 2010
Climate Change and Income Inequality (7 comments) January 5, 2010
A Left-Wing High Dollar Donor (1 comment) December 10, 2009
Rep. Mike Rogers on Health Care December 10, 2009
Warren Buffett Backs a Transaction Tax (3 comments) December 4, 2009
Crovitz on Anonymity (11 comments) November 29, 2009
Review: Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and How They Will Save the American Worker) (1 comment)
by Richard Herman and Robert Smith
November 25, 2009
WSJ CEOs Tout Eminent Domain (1 comment) November 23, 2009
Stossel on Spending and the Elite November 19, 2009
The Socialists of Sanford Bernstein (1 comment) November 19, 2009
Tortured in China November 19, 2009
Oil Until at Least 2030 November 18, 2009
Buffett and Gates at Columbia (2 comments) November 13, 2009
Read It Here First November 12, 2009
A Third Stimulus (1 comment) November 11, 2009
Review: The Capitalist's Bible: The Essential Guide to Free Markets and Why They Matter to You
by Gretchen Morgenson, Editor
November 10, 2009
Berkshire's 'Green' Bets November 9, 2009
Wind in Roscoe, Texas October 28, 2009
Galbraith on Transparency October 28, 2009
Further on the du Pont Seaweed Subsidy October 27, 2009
More 'Stimulus' For GM, du Pont October 27, 2009
Lipsky on a Press Subsidy (1 comment) October 22, 2009
Banning Big-Screen TVs October 15, 2009
Obama's Sacred Trust October 8, 2009
The Taxe Professionnelle (1 comment) September 30, 2009
Sarkozy and State Ownership September 29, 2009
Fisker's Lobbyists (1 comment) September 25, 2009
More Press September 24, 2009
Speculators and Oil Prices September 9, 2009
'Clean' Energy, II (2 comments) September 3, 2009
The Ban on Onion Futures September 3, 2009
'Clean' Energy September 1, 2009
A Market Without Market-Makers August 13, 2009
Read It Here First August 6, 2009
Costing Out the Auto Bailout August 5, 2009
GE and the SEC August 4, 2009
The Math on Cash for Clunkers July 31, 2009
Grassley Gets His Tariff July 30, 2009
Grassley Defends Ethanol Tariff July 28, 2009