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EnergyElectric rates will soar now that Obama's EPA has crushed coal-fired power plantsEnergy | Fox News OpinionBy Phil Kerpen Published March 29, 2012 | FoxNews.com With the country focused on this week’s high drama at the Supreme Court, President Obama’s EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules never authorized by Congress to new coal-fired power plants. That Obama’s EPA would release a rule to destroy coal-fired electricity while the president gives stump speeches about an “all of the above” energy policy is an insult to the American people. Read the rest at Fox News Opinion. Stand with DeMint: End all energy subsidiesDaily Caller | EnergyPublished: 12:10 PM 03/12/2012 The Senate will vote this week on Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate Amendment 1589, which would eliminate all energy tax subsidies. The DeMint Amendment would end the usual games of Republicans subsidizing fossil fuels and Democrats subsidizing renewables. This vote will tell us, clearly, which senators think we as consumers should be in charge of making our own energy decisions and which senators want to make those decisions for us — at a cost of billions of our tax dollars. Read the rest at the Daily Caller. Let consumers, not bureaucrats decide our country's energy futureEnergy | Fox News OpinionBy Phil Kerpen & Steve Lonegan Published March 08, 2012 | FoxNews.com While President Obama is trying futilely to convince the American people he supports an “all of the above” energy policy, he has remained stubbornly committed to vast subsidies for unproven, expensive technologies like wind. Obama has repeatedly described his intention to increase wind subsidies “doubling down,” an appropriate use of gambling terminology. The U.S. Senate will likely be put on record soon on amendment votes to extend wasteful, expensive subsidies for windmills and to create vast new subsidies for natural gas vehicles. These votes will tell us which senators, like the president, want to double down on a losing hand and which think it might be time to try a free market energy policy. Read the rest at Fox News Opinion. Green jobs versus realityEnergy | Fox News OpinionBy Phil Kerpen Published February 10, 2012 | FoxNews.com This week Henry Waxman, the Democratic economic policy guru and esteemed ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, summarized the Democratic position on job creation when he said he supported “real jobs, not these pipeline jobs.” What are the “real jobs” that Waxman supports? Read the rest at Fox News Opinion.  |