Tag: Oil

Tag: Oil

  • Production Quotas:  A Policy Cure Worse than the Disease? image

    Production Quotas:  A Policy Cure Worse than the Disease?

    For decades, the United States has feared a production quota from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that could drive up the global price of oil and spark a…

  • Are Drivers Getting a Good Deal for Gas Taxes? image

    Are Drivers Getting a Good Deal for Gas Taxes?

    Are American drivers getting a good deal on roads for what they pay in gas taxes? Most would struggle to answer the question since doing so would first require them…

  • Proposed Tax Increases Threaten to Stunt Oklahoma Recovery image

    Proposed Tax Increases Threaten to Stunt Oklahoma Recovery

    The Oklahoma legislature is considering tax increases on cigarettes, beer, and fuel, along with doubling the severance tax on new oil and natural gas wells. The estimated…

  • The Battle for Energy Independence image

    The Battle for Energy Independence

    Technological breakthroughs in hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as fracking) continue to unlock vast oil resources, revitalizing industries and unleashing economic growth across the nation. A competitive regulatory climate characterized by…

  • Federal Judge Rules Fracking Regulations Illegal image

    Federal Judge Rules Fracking Regulations Illegal

    As the Obama administration continues to impose its “Regulatory Train Wreck” on the American public, a federal judge in Wyoming has granted the oil and gas industry a reprieve…

  • EPA Issues New Rule Targeting Oil and Gas Industry Methane Emissions image

    EPA Issues New Rule Targeting Oil and Gas Industry Methane Emissions

    As we enter the last several months of the Obama presidency, every indication suggests that the current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is going to go out with a bang. In…

  • Can a Free Market Innovation Help Jumpstart the U.S. Fracking Boom? image

    Can a Free Market Innovation Help Jumpstart the U.S. Fracking Boom?

    Earlier this week, EOG Resources, Inc., a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company, reported on an earnings call that their engineers had recently used natural gas to successfully extract…

  • Interior Reverses Proposal to Allow Atlantic Offshore Drilling image

    Interior Reverses Proposal to Allow Atlantic Offshore Drilling

    A little over a year ago, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) made headlines when it announced a new proposal to open waters along the Atlantic coast between…

  • Sunshine Week: Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act image

    Sunshine Week: Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act

    During the first part of the 21st century, some of the greatest examples of American ingenuity and achievement took place in and around the oil and gas patches across the…

  • Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban – Welcome and Long Overdue image

    Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban – Welcome and Long Overdue

    With the discovery of new reserves and the technological advances to extract the oil, the U.S. has become a leading energy producer. The anti-free market oil ban that seemed a sensible response when enacted clearly outlived its usefulness, as ALEC underscored in its model Resolution in Support of Lifting Federal Restrictions on Crude Oil Exports and Resolution for Reform of Counterproductive Export Control Policies.

  • Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas Use Act image

    Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas Use Act

    Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas Use Act Summary: The purpose of this bill is to create the Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use…

  • Used Oil Collection Act image

    Used Oil Collection Act

    Model Legislation Section 1. {Short Title.} This act shall be known and may be cited as the Used Oil Collection Act. Section 2. {Legislative findings and declarations.} The legislature finds…

  • Limited Immunity for Persons Responding to Oil Spills Act image

    Limited Immunity for Persons Responding to Oil Spills Act

    Model Legislation {Title, enacting clause, etc.} Section 1. {Short Title.} This act shall be known and may be cited as the Limited Immunity for Persons Responding to Oil Spills Act.

  • Recycled/Refined Oil Labeling Act image

    Recycled/Refined Oil Labeling Act

    Section 1. {Short title} This act shall be known and may be cited as the Recycled/Re-refined Oil Labeling Act. Section 2. {Legislative findings and declarations.} This legislature finds and declares…

  • Resolution Calling for Increased Use of Healthy Oils image

    Resolution Calling for Increased Use of Healthy Oils

    WHEREAS, both trans and saturated fatty acids have been recognized as unhealthy and have been associated with increased heart and circulatory diseases, WHEREAS, heart disease is a preventable disease costing…