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Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters “no one knows” how high gasoline prices might go, and declined to rule out the possibility of $9-per-gallon gasoline, the Washington Examiner reports. “Where it all will end, no one knows,” said Salazar.Salazar attempted to deflect the Obama administration’s responsibility for ...

A lobbyist whose clients benefited from Florida H.B. 7117, the Crony Energy Bill, is quoted in the Lakeland Ledger as saying the just-completed Florida legislative session was the “best session” for his clients in a long time because votes on important issues “flew under the radar.” H.B. 7117 gives a staggering $100 million ...

Federal energy policies designed to rid the nation of traditional incandescent light bulbs continue to encounter popular resistance, with South Carolina’s legislature considering its own unique act of defiance. Intrastate Bulbs Considered Lawmakers in Columbia are pondering a proposed “Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act,” a measure ...

What constitutes an affordable “green” light bulb? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, $50 per light bulb is our most promising future. No Likely Market The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $10 million prize to Philips, a Dutch electronics company that is one of the leading manufacturers of light bulbs sold ...

States that have imposed renewable power mandates during recent years are seeing electricity prices rise dramatically, reports a newly published study by the nonpartisan Manhattan Institute. The rising electricity prices are most dramatic in seven coal-producing states that have nevertheless “diversified” their electricity with renewable ...

Green jobs programs enacted by various states are causing economic harm on an economy-wide basis that outweighs the limited economic benefits within the “green” energy sector, according to a newly published study by the nonpartisan State Budget Solutions. Job Destruction Outweighs Creation The report, Green Jobs Don’t Grow on Trees ...