American energy consumption since 1776
Happy Fourth of July to all of our readers. Did you know that virtually all of the energy used by Americans until 1850 was renewable? From 1776 to 1850, wood…
Happy Fourth of July to all of our readers. Did you know that virtually all of the energy used by Americans until 1850 was renewable? From 1776 to 1850, wood…
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to discuss energy and international relations as the national average price of gasoline has…
Minnesota gas prices are at new record highs, with data from AAA showing the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline at $4.33, breaking the previous record set in…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released some of the findings of their 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), which asks respondents a series of questions about their households and…
Last year on Earth Day, I wrote about Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota graduate whose work creating new, higher-yielding wheat varieties helped save one billion people from starvation and…
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr discussed the European Union’s decision to place sanctions on Russian coal on NDT News.
I am very pleased to have co-authored the editorial piece below with Congressman Tom Tiffany from the 7th Congressional District of Wisconsin. The article was originally published in the Washington…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Linnea Lueken, and the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr present episode 336 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode,…
I noticed my gas tank was getting low this morning, and with the most recent oil price increases resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I decided to bite the…
This morning, Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District asked me to help him introduce new legislation known as the Future Agriculture Retention and Management Act of 2022, or…
Despite the fanfare they receive, wind and solar power still account for less than 5 percent of the total energy used by Americans in 2020, losing out to traditional biomass,…
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr was interviewed by the Epoch Times. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector…
This week, Center of the American Experiment kicked off a campaign to reach out to new audiences with our radio ads on Minnesota’s rising cost of energy. The radio ads…
Advocates of wind and solar power often tell us that these energy sources will result in lower energy prices, but the facts on the ground do not support this claim.…
A friend of mine posted this, and it’s certainly funny.
Bloomberg reports that European nations have sleepwalked into an energy crisis that was years in the making. Unfortunately, Europe’s increasing reliance on Russian natural gas emboldens Russian aggression along the…