All posts tagged "Oil"

  • Featured Article
    Federal legislation to curtail speculative oil leasing proposed

    (Sarah Downey) – Legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, seeks to curtail speculative oil...

  • Business
    Nevada’s Republican representatives vote to lift ban on oil exports

    (Thomas Mitchell) – Recently the U.S. House voted 261-159 — largely along party lines as usual — to lift...

  • Business
    Oil consumption in advanced economies hits 20-year low

    (Robert Romano, NetRightDaily.com) – Oil consumption in advanced economies in 2014 was at its lowest level since 1995,...

  • Politics
    Obama’s backward dishwasher rules just more of the same

    (Rick Manning, NetRightDaily.com) – The Obama Administration revealed one more of a string of regulations that have a...

  • Business
    The growing case for ending the Crude Oil Export Ban

    (Reps. Joe L. Barton & Henry Cuellar) – The advantages of lifting the ban on crude oil exports...

  • Business
    It’s time to end the Oil Export Ban

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – The United States imports foreign cars from other countries while simultaneously exporting American-made cars to other countries.  Ditto a wide variety of consumer products.  One does not preclude the other. Except when it comes to oil. Back in the 1970s, after two gas crises triggered by the Mideast...

  • Business
    It’s Time to End the Oil Export Ban

    (Chuck Muth) – The United States imports foreign cars from other countries while simultaneously exporting American-made cars to...

  • Business
    Protect Potential Oil Find From Reid, The Feds And The Legislature

    (Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – The biggest oil company that the average Nevada taxpayer has never heard of has leased 330,000 net acres in Northeastern Nevada and is looking for reserves of half a billion barrels with an exploratory drilling program beginning in 2013. Noble Energy, which calls Houston home these days,...

  • Government
    Obama Plans to Lower Fuel Prices by Raising Cost of Oil?

    (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Snake oil salesmen seldom lied outright, but they never really told the whole truth. In today’s radio address Obama told us with a straight face, “Under my administration, we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years, that’s a fact.” Yes, that’s...

  • Government
    Highlights from the Nevada Energy Forum

    (David Mansdoerfer) – Yesterday, at the Nevada Energy Forum, Congressman Joe Heck and energy expert Rayola Dougher from the American Petroleum Institute gave talks highlighting the importance of energy security and increased production. Congressman Heck talked about three things in particular; job creation, clean energy, and the proposed pipeline from Canada to...

  • Opinion
    E-Interview with Dr. James Coyle

    Today we will be talking with Dr. James Coyle the Director of Global Education at Chapman University...

  • Opinion
    Tax Breaks and Oil Companies

    (David Mansdoerfer) – Today, at $4.39 a gallon, I spent over $50 completely filling up my 2005 Kia Spectra. When I got back into my car, the announcer on the radio mentioned that Exxon Mobil had reported an $11 billion profit for the first three months of 2011. After that, I went...