Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, considered the most likely Democratic candidate for president in 2024 after Joe Biden in the latest Washington Post ranking, says the solution to high gas prices is getting "most Americans" to switch to electric vehicles – willingly or not.  Buttigieg is issuing federal regulations…

It’s not often that Barack Obama provides persuasive authority on an issue of economic debate.   As Joe Biden advocates a foolish temporary gas tax holiday, however, he would be wise to listen to his former boss.   Back in 2008, Obama rightly ridiculed a temporary gas tax suspension as a “gimmick”:  …

Democrats have spent decades warning that the United States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs and cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane – every natural event, really – is now blamed on climate change. We have burdened our…

If you think gas prices are high now, just wait. They're going to get much higher, thanks to President Joe Biden's "irreversible" plan to eliminate fossil fuels. Truth is, your pain at the pump is being planned and executed by the White House.  Over the weekend, buyers paid $5 a gallon to fill the tank – or roughly $…

Remember when Joe Biden pitched his "Build Back Better" boondoggle?   He insisted with a straight face that pouring trillions of additional government dollars into an inflationary economy would somehow reduce inflation.   In support of that facially preposterous assertion, the Biden Administration tweeted, “17…

"Well, you all imagined it," Vice President Kamala Harris commented during a so-called clean-transit event, where she appeared with her fellow tautologist, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. "That's why we're here today – because we have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before.   The United Nations just released yet another climate report, which it naturally advertises as a “code red for humanity.”   Claiming a “very high degree of confidence,” the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns of imminent Ice cap disappearance…

Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine. In response, the Biden Administration's climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet-owning John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming. "You're going to lose people's focus,"…

Thunderous applause is expected Tuesday night when President Joe Biden will pay tribute to the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainians resisting the Russian invasion. But words like liberty and democracy, which Biden invoked on Thursday to praise these heroes, are not enough. Words have to be backed up by military might and energy dominance. Putin's…

The peril of presidential policy blunders is that, by the time their consequences become obvious, it’s too late to avert the painful lessons.   Both at home and overseas, we’re witnessing that dynamic due to the self-inflicted wound that is the Biden Administration’s energy policy.   Here at home, the federal…

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond what is needed to run the country, ostensibly to rebuild the nation after the coronavirus pandemic. Candidate Joe Biden won the contest and has so far signed a $1.9 trillion "COVID relief" bill…

Are you enjoying this historic surge in consumer product shortages and inflation, which the White House in its best Marie Antoinette impression labels a “high-class problem?”   Well, get ready, because it’s about to get even worse.   The federal government warned just last week that Americans should expect significantly…

President Joe Biden contends that the recent hurricanes that hit the United States prove we're in a "climate crisis." It's a "code red" for the world, the president warns. White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy added that climate is now a "health emergency." It is, no doubt, quite convenient for politicians…

On Monday, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, ordered a "code red," releasing a "landmark" report warning that global warming was an existential threat to humanity, "unequivocally" blaming humans for the problem, and demanding rapid action to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. "What the IPCC…

Here’s a crazy thought.   If a consumer product is a good one, government needn’t subsidize it for it to gain popularity, right?   Government certainly shouldn’t have to mandate its purchase or gradually eliminate competing products from the marketplace, thereby removing any consumer choice in the matter. …

In anticipation of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders, President Joe Biden declared that the United States had a "moral imperative" to adopt an "ambitious" goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030 and 100% by 2050. Such an effort, if we…

Leave it to “green energy” advocates and environmental extremists to brazenly ignore their failures in the wake of Texas winter power outages.   Instead, they shamelessly double down and scapegoat more reliable fossil fuels and nuclear energy sources.   What Texas and the rest of America really need, they insist, is…

ALEXANDRIA, VA – In welcome news today, the Trump Administration announced much-needed relief for America’s beleaguered automobile industry by moderating “green” regulations imposed by the Obama Administration.  The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule emerges jointly from the Department of Transportation…

Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world's largest importer of oil and natural gas. Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly looking for fossil fuel energy anywhere it can find it. Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels…

If you’re like most Americans, you think of electric vehicles (EVs) as a novelty that may or may not succeed in the marketplace of products, and an option that people should be perfectly free to purchase with their own dollars if they so choose.  But like most Americans, chances are that you also oppose taxpayer subsidies for EVs and believe…

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, safest and most peaceful era humans have ever known. She is one of the luckiest people ever to have lived. In a just world, Thunberg would be at the United Nations thanking capitalist countries for bequeathing her this remarkable inheritance. Instead…

Betting against America is a foolish proposition, as decades and centuries have proven.  Leftist political merchants, however, continue to peddle that gloom and doom.  The most stinging rebuke in recent years comes courtesy of America’s petroleum sector – perhaps the Left’s most detested bogeyman of all.  Recall the…

This week delivered two new inconvenient truths for climate alarmists, to employ Al Gore’s own smug, profiteering terminology.   The first, as reported by USA Today, is that we’re experiencing a hurricane hiatus unlike anything we’ve witnessed in almost four decades:  If you think it’s been an unusually quiet…

This month, The Wall Street Journal celebrated its 130th anniversary by republishing salient articles spanning that period, including this retrospectively illuminating report from February 2, 1978:  A climatic disaster, triggered by the continued burning of oil and coal, could result in the submergence of much of Florida, Holland and other low…

Climate isn't the same as weather — unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful. In that case, weather portends climate apocalypse. So warns Elizabeth Warren as she surveyed Iowan rainstorms, which she claims, like tornadoes and floods, are more frequent and severe. "Different parts of the country deal with different…

Electric vehicles (EVs) offer a promising and fascinating technological innovation, even for the most cantankerous traditionalists.  That doesn’t mean, however, that federal tax dollars should be subsidizing them.  Especially when those subsidies constitute a handout to wealthier Americans who can already afford them, most of them…

When your adversaries begin self-destructing, it’s unwise to interrupt them.  It’s even more foolish to proactively throw them a lifeline to extricate them from the predicament of their own creation.  Apparently, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R – Florida) either forgot that wisdom or never internalized it in the first instance…

The anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change alarm movement is fraudulent and farcical.  As if fresh confirmation of that reality was necessary, it arrived this week when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – Kentucky) allowed liberals to match deed to word by bringing their “Green New Deal” to vote.  It failed…

"The Green New Deal is the only way to save the earth from utter extinction. If you keep standing in the way, troglodytes, we are doomed." "OK, Democrats, let's vote on your nonbinding resolution." "Why are you sabotaging our legislation?!"  If you think this is an exaggeration of the illogical position of Democrats…

Ask yourself this:  If your ideological opponents stubbornly and continually uttered something laughably counterfactual and preposterously contrary to truly “settled science,” would you really feel the need to silence them?   Quite the contrary, you’d provide them the most prominent platform, and expose them to the…