After canceling Keystone, Biden now begs OPEC to increase production

After canceling Keystone, Biden now begs OPEC to increase production

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2021 After six months of enacting policies that have crippled U.S. oil production, starting with the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Biden administration is now begging OPEC and non-OPEC members including Russia to boost output as prices at the pump soar. The national average price for a gallon […]

Keystone cancellation hits rural electric companies hard

Keystone cancellation hits rural electric companies hard

by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 President Donald Trump granted TC Energy a presidential permit to construct and operate the XL pipeline in March 2019. In a Jan. 20, 2021 executive order, Joe Biden revoked that permit. “It basically shut a lot of what we were doing down overnight,” Jeff Birkeland, the CEO of West […]

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton blew a gasket recently when a Greenpeace activist challenged the Democratic front-runner on her insatiable taste for campaign cash from major fossil fuel companies. At a March 31 rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Greenpeace activist Eva Resnick-Day asked Clinton, “Will you act on your […]

U.S. global competitiveness ranking: From 1 to 7th since 2007

U.S. global competitiveness ranking: From 1 to 7th since 2007

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — As the seemingly interminable election campaign nears the finish line, there are a few glaringly missing topics which remain almost untouched. The first deals with an issue affecting nearly everyone and the other one which may determine America’s future scientific prowess and potential. Gasoline prices. Here we have record […]

Noticing Romney’s unnoticed energy proposal

Noticing Romney’s unnoticed energy proposal

Sol W. Sanders   Stolid Mitt Romney has come up with an energy plan with a stinger in its tail. The mainstream media, fixated on distractions of the Democratic matador’s cape, virtually ignored it. Energy aficionados gave it a ho-hum reception since it calls on hoary common-sense arguments. But the plan contains a magnificent hidden […]

Neither Barack nor Teddy, but more like Vladimir

Neither Barack nor Teddy, but more like Vladimir

Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama has been reborn as a populist. At a major speech this week in Kansas, Mr. Obama outlined the themes of his 2012 re-election campaign. He is a champion of the middle class, which he claims is under siege. Their enemies are big business, corporations and the rich. He chose Osawatomie […]