Al Gore called for a program that would lead to the internal-combustion engine's elimination by 2017. His vision is utterly untethered to reality.

The private sector is entirely capable of developing EVs and other new automotive technologies without the need for subsidies.

The president was quick to embrace the Keystone delay to 2013, as it will spare him the need to either approve the pipeline, infuriating environmentalists, or kill it, infuriating everyone else. Whether one views such a move as cowardly or as pragmatic, it’s indisputably foolish.

Just as with Horton, the people in our policy debates who spend their time pointing to the not seen, are often ridiculed, slandered, and disrespected. Bastiat observed that when government goes beyond referring free-enterprise to actively interfering with it, the consequences fall into two categories: what is seen, and what is not seen.

We can build new roads, create new jobs and advance American industry by increasing the role of private investment in national transportation policy.

President Obama's policies area recipe for fuel inefficiency.

If we want our economy to flourish, we need our energy to be two things: abundant and affordable. And only free energy markets can provide that.

Has the threat of global warming and soaring fossil fuel costs changed the prospects for nuclear energy? Advocates stress its potential cost-effectiveness and the coming generation of safe, efficient plants. Critics maintain that efficiency is a mirage and that environmental uncertainties remain. While technological advances have made nuclear power plants...