Greenpeace Founder: We Must Go Nuclear
Speaking before an audience in Boise, Idaho last week, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore confirmed that there is no proof that humans are causing global warming, and he wisely advocated a dramatic shift toward reliance upon nuclear power...[more]
API Chief Economist Discusses Oil Prices, Fuel Choices, Taxes and Supply and Demand
Recently, John C. Felmy, Ph.D., Chief Economist with the American Petroleum Institute, joined CFIF’s Renee Giachino to discuss gas prices, global energy demand, the environment and energy security, among of issues…[Read more and listen to the interview here.]
Al Gore Equates Global Warming with World War II and Civil Rights Movement, While Europe Announces Cap-and-Trade Failure...[more]
McCain Should Reject Dangerous Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Despite a slowing economy that may slump toward recession, unrelenting global warming alarmists continue to press carbon cap-and-trade proposals...[more]
Climate-Change Lunatics' Latest Target: Hanukkah Menorah Candles
Just when you thought that global warming lunatics couldn't descend any deeper into their morass of absurdity, they proceed to pioneer new realms of insanity...[more]
"HillaryCare" for Cars: Render Them Less Safe and Punish American Automakers
On Monday, Hillary Clinton ostentatiously demanded that automakers increase their fuel efficiency standards some 60% by 2020, and to a preposterous 55 miles per gallon by 2030, merely 23 years from now...[more]
Nobel Peace Prize Continues Its Slow Self-Degradation
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, the Nobel Committee confirms its long, slow transformation into little more than a boilerplate political outburst...[more]
Is America Preparing to Surrender on Kyoto?
If at first you don't succeed, make matters even worse and try, try again. At least, that appears to be the logic of self-described "global-warming diplomats" who met last week in Austria to concoct their latest scheme to damage world economies in pursuit of a sham solution to a fabricated climate crisis...[more]
An Open Letter to the President and Congress:
Taxpayers Oppose Hike in Federal Gas Tax
In an open letter to President Bush and Congress, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) this week joined 55 other national and state organizations in opposing any increase in the federal excise tax on gasoline...[more]
Leo DiCaprio, Expert Climatologist
No longer satisfied playing the role of vacuous teen dreamboat, actor Leo
DiCaprio now presumes to play the role of meteorological expert on all things
climate-related...[more]
Nuclear "Doomsday Clock" Hijacked by
Climate Change Alarmists
Radical Environmentalists Continue Politicization of Doomsday Clock,
Literally Equating Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons...[more]
The 'Making Energy Less Affordable Act'
As the U.S. House of Representatives considers numerous legislative proposals
on a national energy policy, more than two dozen state and federal organizations,
including the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF), this week expressed "grave
concerns" about specific proposals and the direction of the debate...[more]
CFIF Urges Congress to Oppose Extreme
New Mileage Regulations
In a letter to all Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives,
the Center for Individual Freedom this week joined with the American Conservative
Union, Frontiers of Freedom and America's Independent Trucker's Association
in urging Congress to oppose increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
standards. …[Read the letter here (.pdf).]
CFIF Joins Coalition in Airing Concerns About Senate Energy Legislation
In a letter sent to all U.S. Senators this week, the Center for Individual Freedom joined more than two dozen state and national free-market organizations to air concerns about S. 1419, the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Among other issues, the letter points out that the bill should be titled the "Making Energy Less Affordable Act." ...[Read the full text of the letter now (.pdf).]
Hey Congress: Don't Muck With Our Trucks
Recently, CFIF Director of Legal and Public Affairs Timothy Lee joined Renee Giachino, to discuss how increased fuel economy standards in bad public policy and what can be done by concerned drivers, auto enthusiasts and all who believe it is wrong for Washington to meddle with the rights of automobile owners to buy and operate the vehicles they want and need. ...[Read more and listen to the interview here.]
White House Caves on Climate Change, While China Thumbs Its Nose
Last week, President Bush issued a stunning and disheartening capitulation toward global warming hysterics by pledging to reduce America's "greenhouse gas" emissions. "The United States takes this issue seriously," he said in announcing the disappointing reversal of White House policy...[more]
CFIF Launches 'Free My Ride' Grassroots
Campaign in Opposition to Extreme New Mileage Regulations
As Congress prepares to consider comprehensive energy
legislation, including the imposition of extreme new mileage regulations, the
Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) this week launched a massive new grassroots
campaign called Free My Ride...[more]
President Caves to Environmentalists in Expanding Failed Fuel Economy Scheme
President Bush this week ordered increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, exacerbating an already-defective fuel economy program...[more]
Want Energy Independence? Drill Offshore, Go Nuclear.
Politicians and commentators on the left incessantly seek cheap political points by advocating "energy independence." The only problem is that they clearly don't mean it...[more]
Much More Than an Inconvenient Decision
In the first landmark decision of this term, a bare majority of the Supreme Court of the United States decided two weeks ago that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the "authority to regulate the emission of [greenhouse] gases from new motor vehicles."...[more]
Are Americans
Snowed In or Snowed Over?
Debunking Global Warming Myths
Recently, Christopher Horner, Senior Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism,” joined CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino to discuss his book and dispel the “global warming” myths of the Left...[Read more and listen to the interview here.]
Western State Governors Succumb To Climate-Change Silliness
Pact to Reduce "Greenhouse Gases" Will Harm State Economies but do Nothing to Affect Climate...[more]
Turning Up the Heat on Global Warming Skeptics
The most recent target of the Al Gore Brigade is one George Taylor. Taylor is the "State Climatologist" of Oregon, a title created by Oregon State University (OSU) and not the state, although the state legislature created the state climate office at the school...[more]
Don't Tell Al Gore - It Just Snowed In Phoenix
Don't tell Al Gore, but it snowed in Phoenix, Arizona this past week. In fact, this month has been the coldest January in Phoenix since 1979...[more]
On Sunday, November 26, the Washington Post ran a hysterical opinion column by environmental activist Laurie David, the same woman who produced Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth," founded StopGlobalWarming.org and serves as a Natural Resources Defense Counsel trustee...[more]
CFIF Joins Letter Applauding President's Environmental Plan
Innovation and technology, not cap and trade policies, will address environmental issues and protect the economy...[more]
Bush Conspiracy Forces Lower Gasoline Prices
If lowering taxes to stimulate the economy were not enough, just look at what President Bush has done for us now. In one of the widest ranging conspiracies in history, requiring a worldwide labyrinth of coordination with everyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the price of crude oil...[more]
Mars and Pluto Climates Warming, Al Gore Scours for Extraterrestrial SUVs
Mars and Pluto are undergoing their own periods of global warming, according to multiple scientific studies. This has important implications for our own planet, and for Al Gore and liberal environmentalists as well...[more]
By Dan Gainor: It was the summer of love all over again. Only this time we didn't have hookah pipes, tie-dyed shirts and the Doors singing "People Are Strange." All journalists had was their love for one man - Al Gore - and this summer he and the media both proved the song was right...[more]
Environmentalists Ask Supreme Court to Impose Kyoto Agenda: Lawsuit Would Regulate what You Exhale
Environmentalists, repeatedly rejected by the democratic process and unable to pass the Kyoto Protocol or their radical agenda, are doing what liberals invariably do when defeated in the marketplace of ideas: turning to the courts...[more]
By Dan Gainor: Since Hurricane Katrina swept ashore on the Gulf Coast, we've heard seemingly countless reports of "record high" gas or oil prices. From the beginning of September last year, the big three networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - have told us about record high gas or oil prices close to 100 times...[more]
On the heels of these embarrassing revelations, Nature magazine now obliterates the core assertion of Gore's new movie and globetrotting global warming crusade -- that climate change is an unnatural and irrevocable phenomenon...[more]
Understanding Prices at the Pumps (Part II)
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted 389-34 to make gasoline "price-gouging" a federal felony. The Wall Street Journal followed the vote with an editorial acknowledging that the "irony here is that if there is any extortion or swindling going on in the oil marketplace, Congress is the guilty party...[more]
A Layman's Guide to Understanding Gasoline Prices
These days it may be easier to predict with accuracy the weather for the next morning than the price of gasoline at the pumps. Indeed, if the price at the pump drops evens a penny it's newsworthy, as gasoline prices hover around $3 per gallon in many places across the country...[more]
Yet that is not the case this holiday season, as gas prices have fallen substantially in recent weeks. Nonetheless, Congress is debating a measure that would impose a multi-billion dollar windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies, following the industry's recent good earnings announcements...[more]
CFIF Urges House Republicans to Reinstate ANWR Into Budget Bill
In a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert and 25 House Republicans, CFIF this week urged them to reinstate the provision to open ANWR to responsible oil and gas exploration into the House Budget Bill...[more]
How Long Could Your State Run on ANWR Oil?
Recent disruptions in oil production caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
coupled with
‘No Comment’ from the Washington Post
Michael Getler, the ombudsman of the Washington Post, must not have liked the complaint we sent him two weeks ago...[more]
Who You Gonna Trust: CFIF or the Washington Post?
On September 20, the Washington Post published “Alaska Natives Offer a Herd of Reasons to Block Oil Drilling” by Vanessa de la Torre...[more]
The “Truth” about ANWR: Tell It All, Sarah James
Larry Schweiger, President of the National Wildlife Federation, has e-mailed supporters that Sarah James, spokesperson for the Gwich’in tribe of native Alaskans, is in Washington to tell Congress the “truth”...[more]
The Caribou Con: In Search of ANWR Truth
As Congress once again contemplates the wisdom, necessity and consequences of oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), one of the most persistent arguments against it has been the alleged potential threat to the Porcupine Caribou herd, so-named after the Porcupine River, which is within the herd’s range...[more]
ANWR Exploration Dies in the Senate
Against the backdrop of increased tension in the Middle East, political turmoil in Venezuela, the war on terrorism and soaring gas prices here at home, the Senate Thursday defeated a proposal that would have reduced America’s dependence on foreign oil...[more]
Raising Federal CAFE Standards: A Misguided and Costly Mandate
As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate energy legislation, lawmakers are wrangling over reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. Some of the more astute are advocating increased domestic production, including limited exploration in a tiny sliver of land in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) — an area specifically set aside by Congress for that purpose. Others, led by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Fritz Hollings (D-SC) have proposed raising the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, a mandate determining the minimum average miles per gallon (mpg) for vehicles sold in this country...[more]
The Daschle Energy Plan: 400 Pages and Still No Energy Independence
If the events of September 11 have taught us anything, it’s that a strong national energy policy reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil is essential to long term national security...[more]
Center
Urges Immediate Senate Action on Comprehensive Energy Plan, Including ANWR Exploration
In a letter to Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), the Center for Individual
Freedom urged immediate Senate action on the bipartisan comprehensive energy
plan already passed by the House of Representatives, including provisions to
open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration.
"There is no issue more important to our nation’s security than reducing
America’s dependence on foreign oil."...[more]
Exploring
ANWR:
Why
Two Thousand Acres in Alaska Are a Matter of National Security
Americans are fast adjusting to the reality that the first war of the 21st Century will not be over quickly; it may take years. With that reality comes the responsibility to seriously reexamine long-term needs in light of new national priorities. First and foremost on anyone’s list must be national security...[more]