domestic oil and gas

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An all-of-the-above approach to energy encompassing oil and gas, along with renewables, carbon sequestration, nuclear power and efficiency is fully consistent with addressing climate change.[read more]

California Energy

California? It used to be mentioned in the same breath as oil giants Texas and Alaska, but oil production is down 21 percent since 2001 and it has slipped out of the top-three tier of oil-producing states.[read more]

offshore drilling

Access to areas offshore and onshore is vital to the kind of expanded domestic oil and natural gas production needed to make the United States more energy self-sufficient, which would strengthen our energy security.[read more]

Domestic crude oil production

Advancing from the energy crises of the 1970s, 80s and 90s to a point where the US soon may produce more of its own crude oil than it imports is a big deal, a landmark achievement in terms of economy and energy security.[read more]

Total U.S. oil and gas production has definitely increased since 2008. But, how much of this new production can be reasonably credited to the Obama Administration’s energy policy and regulatory actions?[read more]

abandoned windmills

In addition to harming the economy, the middle-class and national security, sequestration will have a disastrous impact on the environment, adversely affecting air, water, energy, fish, wildlife and national parks. The upside? Sequestration will likely slow down oil and gas permitting.[read more]

oil boom

With the uneasiness to finalize a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, many may be surprised to hear that the United States is producing oil at its highest level in 20 years.[read more]

From what relatively little attention a report by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office on energy security received last month, one conclusion jumps out at us here at The Energy Fix. We’ve pasted it in below, along with the most relevant infographic.“Policies that promoted greater production of oil in the United States would probably not...[read more]

As I was thinking about the offshore drilling moratoria--both the official one that's scheduled to end in a few weeks and the unofficial one that might drag on for months or years--it occurred to me that the Deepwater Horizon accident couldn't have happened at a worse time, in terms of our grasping its impact on our energy economy. There...[read more]