Over at National Review last week, the Tax Foundation’s Alex Muresianu dug into the nuts and bolts of a carbon tax and argued (credibly) that a carbon tax could be preferable to our existing jumble of climate regulations. As Muresianu…
Oleg Ustenko, a top economic adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenksy, slammed the international community in a statement Monday. Ustenko called on all countries currently buying oil from the Russians to stop and said all those who continue to buy…
Last Sunday evening, tech billionaire and entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk tweeted, “Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.” His full-throated support for nuclear energy comes at…
When President Biden was inaugurated, the average price of regular gasoline in the U.S. was $2.38. A little over a year later, the price has reached a record high of $4.32. Attempts by the White House to blame this increase…
Last October, The American Spectator ran my op-ed declaring that “Putin Has NATO Over a Barrel.” It lamented the precarious position of Europe and the U.S. national security, caused by energy policies intent on total decarbonization. The unintended consequence of…
President Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels has emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to wage war on Ukraine. Recent sanctions imposed by Biden on Russia, while onerous, have stopped short of crippling Russia’s cash crop: oil and gas. In fact,…
President Joe Biden has continuously stated that “climate change” is the highest priority of his administration, fueled by Build Back Better spending. We are witnessing the disastrous impacts that establishing the wrong priorities can have. On the day Biden became…
How does he do it? Vladimir Putin, that is. With only the world’s 11th-biggest GDP, he has the third-most powerful military, on which he spent $67 billion in 2020. With which he bullies and invades neighbors and ties down NATO as a whole and…