Paul Driessen
December 31, 2012
The political superstorm that devastated New York - Incompetence, stupidity, diversion, blame shifting, and false solutions to imaginary problems
Paul Driessen
December 13, 2012
Obama’s Walt Disney energy policies
Wishes upon stars won’t make energy dreams come true – but will bring nightmares
Paul Driessen
December 7, 2012
As discussions continue at the United Nations latest climate change confab in Doha, Qatar, the alarmist rhetoric is intensifying: Global temperatures are rising uncontrollably. Hurricane Sandy proves climate change is real and dangerous. Methane hydrates will melt and send destructive clouds of climate-changing gases into Earth’s atmosphere. The world is excited about agreeing to a new international treaty to replace Kyoto. Or so the delegates and climate campaigners claim.
It’s time for a healthy dose of reality. That is exactly what David Rothbard and Craig Rucker provide in their informative and thought-provoking article.
Thank you for posting it, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues.
Best regards,
Paul Driessen
Saving the planet – or protecting power grabs and cash cows?
Doha sets stage for another environmental power grab to “prevent dangerous global warming” - David Rothbard and Craig Rucker
November 16, 2012
Here's the updated climate change issues summary from the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. It includes new material about Hurricane Sandy and other important topics/
Thank you for your interest in these issues and this informative document, which could prove very helpful as the United States and other countries debate climate change, hurricanes, new international treaties, and especially job-killing carbon taxes and other restrictions on hydrocarbon use.
Paul Driessen
Climate change issues for 2012 - Prepared by the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, summarizing current knowledge on climate
November 3, 2012
Climate Change and Energy & Environment questions
Over the past several months people have asked CFACT a number of questions about climate change, energy and the environment. We responded to them, and then decided to compile their questions and our answers into two 6-page documents that present these science-based issues in brief, understandable, lay terms.
We hope you will find this information useful, as you address important public policy issues … and respond to similar questions from friends, colleagues and citizens. Please feel free to post the documents and/or links, quote from the materials, and forward them to your friends and colleagues.
Thank you for reviewing the material. If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Driessen, Senior Policy Advisor
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
November 3, 2012
Fractured fairy tales - Greens hate natural gas and fracking, but costly, parasitic wind energy can’t live without it
Paul Driessen
October 25, 2012
Perverse environmentalist oil sands ethics - Opposition to the Canadian oil sands and Keystone Pipeline reflects debased moral code
Paul Driessen
October 19, 2012
Winners and losers energy policies - We can and must rejuvenate our economy by developing America’s resource bounties
Paul Driessen
September 19, 2012
Climate Alarmism: Our sanity and wallets need a break - Billions of taxpayer dollars are disrupting our politics, science, energy policies and economy
Paul Driessen
September 11, 2012
Government of, by and for the EPA - EPA advances anti-energy agenda, with little regard for Americans’ health or welfare
Paul Driessen
August 28, 2012
Our SimCity government - Governments treat us like Sim-citizens: with fewer rights for us and no accountability for them
Paul Driessen and David Legates
August 19, 2012
Real energy for a new American renaissance - Sensible, responsible energy policies must replace today’s subsidies and crony corporatism
Paul Driessen
August 9, 2012
Beat GSA! - Navy’s biofuel program vanquishes GSA in battle for wasteful spending supremacy
Paul Driessen
August 9, 2012
The Golden Rule for legislators and regulators is simple: Do not impose new rules, if you have not considered or cannot control their unintended consequences.
That’s the message presented in this informative and thought-provoking commentary by my friend and Affordable Power Alliance colleague Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. As a pastor and AFP co-chair, Bishop Jackson understands energy, poverty and the harmful effects of well-intentioned policies.
His article addresses the adverse impacts of EPA’s far tougher proposed mileage standards for new cars and light trucks. The standards mean poor families won't be able to afford new vehicles – and in many cases even decent used vehicles. Far worse, the new mileage requirements will likely cause thousands of additional and unnecessary injuries and deaths.
54.5 mpg and the law of unintended consequences
Rules that make cars less affordable – and less safe – are unethical and should be reconsidered
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
July 31, 2012
Voting for wildlife extermination - Extending the wind energy PTC will drive eagles and other majestic birds to extinction - Paul Driessen
July 24, 2012
The Colorado wildfires took human lives, destroyed hundreds of homes, killed countless wildlife, and incinerated vast stretches of prime forest habitat close to two of the Centennial State’s biggest cities. Having lived in Colorado for a decade, hiked in these now blackened areas, seen past forest fires and written about the role of current forest management policies in causing conflagrations like these – I have taken a keen interest in the Waldo Canyon and High Park fires.
As these and other western wildfires jumped one fire break after another, to incinerate still more homes and habitats, I've also looked hard at the policies, technologies and techniques that are being employed to combat the fires. What I found was extremely troubling.
I’ve become especially concerned that a new fire suppressant was not used, even though it very likely could have brought these and other wildfires under control much more quickly AND prevented many of the 600 Fort Collins and Colorado Springs homes from being torched. It might even have saved people’s lives.
To me this was a failure of epic proportions on the part of government officials on whom families and wildlife depend for their safety.
I offer this timely and provocative analysis, in the hope that it will raise public awareness, have a positive policy impact, and help ensure that such needless tragedies are not repeated. Paul
Western wildfires – horrific, destructive … and unnecessary - New fire-fighting technology could help put them out. Why isn’t it being used?
Paul Driessen
July 14, 2012
American families, workers and taxpayers are caught in a vicious crossfire from President Obama’s army of renewable energy, anti-hydrocarbon, anti-economic growth regulators. From the White House to Energy Secretary Chu, Interior Secretary Salazar, EPA Administrator Jackson and thousands of unaccountable bureaucrats, the administration is raising energy costs, killing jobs, stifling job creation, and turning dreams of opportunity and prosperity into nightmares for millions of Americans.
My article this week chronicles the scope and impact of these damaging policies. - Paul Driessen
Caught in a green crossfire - President Obama’s war on fossil fuels is hurting American workers, families, hopes and dreams
Paul Driessen
July 3, 2012
My Atlas Economic Research Foundation colleague has written another fine article that I hope you will post, quote from, and forward to your friends.
The Keystone XL Pipeline Canada to Texas is not just an energy security and jobs creation project for America. It is also a winning campaign issue for Mitt Romney and other political candidates. That’s why many DEMOCRAT candidates for public office … and many UNIONS and UNION LEADERS … support building the pipeline and sharply criticize President Obama’s decision to veto KXL pipeline construction, so as to appease his radical environmentalist base, while killing thousands of American jobs and billions in much-needed revenue.This article provides valuable insights into why the pipeline should be built – as presented by an interesting cross-section of people whom you might think would be in Obama’s camp.
Best regards, Paul Driessen
Keystone is a winning issue - Romney should tour pipeline route and meet with Democrat and union leaders - Deroy Murdock
June 28, 2012
The UN’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development is finally over. CFACT was there from start to finish, in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte – interviewing, educating, and working hard to defend the rights, liberties and opportunities of hard-working Americans and the billions of poor people who want to take their rightful places among the Earth’s healthy and prosperous inhabitants.
This article is both a post mortem on the conference – and a cautionary tale about the kind of “global governance” that environmental activists and UN bureaucrats had planned for us … and will almost certainly seek to implement at the next UN summit on global warming, sustainability, biodiversity or some still undefined looming global cataclysm. Paul Driessen
‘The Future We? Want' - Dodging another UN bullet - Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin
June 21, 2012
Rio+20 is greatest threat to biodiversity - 99% of species and humans are ill served by the 0.1% UN and environmentalist elites - Paul Driessen and David Rothbard
June 20, 2012
“Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity - The UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress- Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin
May 23, 2012
Rare corporate courage and common sense - Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers - Paul Driessen
Paul Driessen
Senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death (www.Eco-Imperialism.com)