Ever since Richard Nixon's call for "energy independence," U.S. Presidents have talked about energy policy, mostly incoherently. Continuing that tradition, President Obama is now crisscrossing the country and giving speeches touting his administration's energy plan, the "Blueprint for Energy Security."

Once again, the regulators in California have decided to lead the nation in terms of vehicle emission standards, proposing to require that 15.4 percent of all vehicles sold by 2025 must be electric cars, plug-in hybrid cars, or (currently non-existent) fuel cell cars.

Finding oil is a long, complex, cumbersome, and expensive process.

The privatization of roads would be a long-term solution to improving our transportation infastructure.

The Telecommunications Act must be protected from efforts, such as that of the Bells, to dilute it.

After the Bush administration,thereality of Iranian, North Korean, and other nuclear weapons programs will continue.

An irregular feature for the irreverently inclined.

The right thing to do is to strike all energy subsidies, tax the environmental harms that energy demonstrably creates, and let the market sort it out.