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• 08/06/2001 -- HOUSE APPROVED ANWR LEASING, NOT DRILLING
  The US House of Representatives did not - as has so widely been reported - approve drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain this week.
• 07/27/2001 -- FALSE CHOICES IN US ENERGY POLICY-MAKING
  Somebody from Washington, DC, has been making sense about US energy policy-making-as opposed to policy-recently. Of all people, it's the secretary of Energy.
• 07/20/2001 -- ONLY IN THE EU IS SUB-50% APPROVAL A POWER BASE
  In a democracy, 50% support doesn't give leadership much clout.
• 07/13/2001 -- CALIFORNIA MOVES TO CRIMINALIZE ENERGY PRODUCTION
  If a government outlaws business behavior, business subject to its laws will go away.
• 07/06/2001 -- PROGRESS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION
  Competition is the lifeblood of commerce. Commerce is the lifeblood of economic development. Economic development is the lifeblood of human progress.
• 06/29/2001 -- RAISING THE PRICE OF CORN WITH ETHANOL SUBSIDY
  Just about everything anyone needs to know about the politics of fuel ethanol appears in this statement by Marlys Popma, executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa, as quoted recently in the New York Times:"Ethanol is just hugely important in Iowa because it drives up of the price of corn."
• 06/22/2001 -- FORMS OF EXPRESSION, FROM THE BOTTOM UP
  Freedom of people to express their opinions and ideas is something to cherish and defend. Freedom of people to choose their method of expression deserves equivalent status. So does the freedom of people to choose which opinions and ideas, among all that come their way, to take seriously and which to dismiss for lack of merit.
• 06/15/2001 -- LAWMAKERS, FERC SET TO UNLEASH PRICE CONTROLS
  The dike broke this week. Energy price controls are back.
• 06/08/2001 -- US SHOULD NOT EXTEND IRAN-LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT
  The governments of Iran and Libya are international menaces. Most other governments agree about that but not about how to respond.
• 06/01/2001 -- A CLEAR MESSAGE ABOUT CALIFORNIA'S ELECTRICITY CRISIS
  Politics and blame-dodging obscure lessons that should be clear about California's electricity crisis.
• 05/25/2001 -- GROUPS FIGHT ATTEMPT TO SNEAK KYOTO INTO EFFECT
  A group of US trade associations has launched a righteous counteroffensive against a stealthy attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
• 05/18/2001 -- DEMOCRATIC GRIPES GOOD FOR BUSH ENERGY PLAN
  While the Bush administration's energy policy will take time to fully assess, reaction of the political opposition provides an inverse gauge of its merits.
• 05/11/2001 -- CALL FOR FUEL PRICE INVESTIGATION BAD FOR COUNTRY
  The US needs the oil and gas industry to be producing oil and natural gas, not answering mean-spirited questions from lawmakers who won't listen to the answers.
• 05/04/2001 -- ELK CONTROVERSY CLOUDS LARGER ISSUE OF LAND ACCESS
  It happens in Washington, DC. Clumsy handling of a minor point in otherwise valuable commentary gets all the attention.
• 04/27/2001 -- OPEC QUOTAS STILL YIELD TO ECONOMICS, POLITICS
  Conditions of the present oil market don't overturn the fundamentals of economics and politics.
• 04/20/2001 -- SULFUR, ARSENIC, AND SUSPICIOUS REGULATION
  Recent experience of the oil industry hangs a suspicious cloud over a dispute about arsenic in drinking water.
• 04/13/2001 -- THE POLITICAL URGE TO MANIPULATE MARKETS
  It is possible to remove price controls, as the enlightened world did on energy in the 1980s. It is more difficult to snuff the perverse political urge that gives them rise.
• 04/06/2001 -- THE FADING OF GERMANY'S GREENS
  Green politics is turning brown around the edges in Germany.
• 03/30/2001 -- EARLY ENERGY POLICY PROPOSALS AVOID THE BIG MISTAKES
  Each congressional side has fired its first volley over US energy policy, and the potential damage seems to fall within tolerable boundaries. In fact, some good might even result.
• 03/23/2001 -- BUSH'S TURN ON CO2 HELPS GAS PRODUCERS, TOO
  More than a few producers of natural gas probably have mixed feelings about President George W. Bush's decision this month not to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from power plants as an air pollutant. Some might be altogether disappointed.