The American Clean Energy and Security Act guarantees that we will remain reliant upon dictators to drive cars, heat our homes, and run our appliances.

American energy policy is at a standstill. A new approach is needed that focuses on energy innovation as a key driver of American economic growth, national security, and health and safety benefits.

The Waxman-Markey bill now before the US Senate requires the wholesale remaking of the entire energy sector over the next four decades, at huge expense, and with a guarantee, sadly, that it will not fulfil its central goal of significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Congress should apply to climate change the market-based solution that it successfully applied to acid rain nearly twenty years ago.

Energy is entering a new round of political neglect from both parties, but government should pursue a policy to drive energy innovation.

High gas prices are inducing consumers to tighten their belts and politicians to call for taxes on oil companies. This Outlook explores the true causes of oil price fluctuation and explains how policymakers can help lower gasoline prices.

Politicians have frequently directed harsh rhetoric toward particular corporate taxpayers that earn high profits. At times, this rhetoric has been accompanied by policy proposals that single out a narrow set of profitable taxpayers for disparate treatment. Perhaps the most notable example is the war against Big Oil.

Many analysts have written about the innumerable problems with cap-and-trade, and most of the problems that have been predicted have found their way into the current cap-and-trade law working its way through Congress.