TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

Arguably the greatest economic boom period of the 20th Century, the period between 1986 and 2000, was fueled, quite literally, by the cheape...

Oil prices have soared over 300% since leaving the $20/barrel range for good in early 2002. The first time oil hit $19/barrel was in the sum...

Reagan-Bush-Clinton era low energy costs coincided with economic "good times" when real GDP increased 83% over twenty years. By co...

You deserve it!

The Boston Globe has the story here  about the two-term former Governor's victory: Republican-aligned groups spent $3.7 million in a los...

Feed prices have skyrocketed as a result of drought and dedication of ever larger portions of corn harvests to fuel production instead of fo...

In the Mad Max movies, it took an apocalypse to start the war for gasoline. In 2012 in New York and New Jersey it only took a Category 1 hur...

h/t Nita

The number without power has really come down.

Mayor Doomberg has canceled the NY Marathon because . . . it was to have started on Staten Island, and the optics of starting a race at grou...

Last question of the second presidential debate, picked by Candy Crowley, a hanging curve ball for the president: CROWLEY: Governor Romney,...

"When I take her to the track she really shines She always turns in the fastest times My four speed dual quad posi-traction 409"

Notice the dramatic uptick in fuel economy after the oil embargo of the 1970s. Economy went from about 12 mpg to about 20 in just about 5 ye...

The national average price of a gallon of gasoline stayed above $3.11 for about 7 months under liberal George Bush, but under catastrophe Ba...

If you haven't yet heard of it, the threat from "regionalism" is the attempt to overturn the dominant organizing principle of ...

From a worthwhile discussion of the issues, here : America produces 40 percent of its electricity from coal. Eight states, including Kentuck...