By Matt Rooney _ Honest disagreements are okay. Scams are something else altogether. You probably know that the Trump Administration has considered opening federal Atlantic waters to gas and oil exploration. It’s been all over the news. Proposed exploration territories are Read More
5 Quick But Irrefutable Reasons Why N.J. Should Embrace Offshore Drilling
The Trump Administration’s offshore exploration decision is predictably resulting in a ton of hysteria, Save Jerseyans. What you need to know: – FACT: Offshore drilling platforms wouldn’t be visible from the shoreline with the naked eye. I wrote about this Read More
Weinberg-style Democrats don’t want ‘clean’ energy; they might want Flintstones cars!
President Barack Obama took a half-hearted approach to tackling the oil-by-rail boom during his years in office, Save Jerseyans, because some BIG money liberals (like Warren Buffett and Tom Steyer) have made fortunes off of the dangerous practice (side note: Read More
Christie Administration Opposes Trump Plan to Drill in Atlantic
Credit: Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen DEP Commissioner Bob Martin The Christie administration yesterday renewed its opposition to any plans to open the waters off the Jersey coast to oil and gas exploration, a move being considered by the federal government. In Read More
Dirty Secret Behind Wind Turbines, They Need Lots Of Oil
Offshore wind turbines may generate green energy, but they use a lot more oil than proponents like to admit. Just installing the foundation of a single offshore turbine can consume 18,857 barrels of marine fuel during construction, according to calculations Read More
Chart: America Is Selling 5 Times More Oil To The World Than 20 Years Ago
America is exporting five times more oil to the world than it did in 1995, according to federal data aggregated Friday by the American Enterprise Institute. America surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia early last year as the world’s largest and Read More
Lance: If Iran can sell oil, then why shouldn’t America?
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Some regular business continues this beautiful, sunny Friday notwithstanding the speakership dysfunction plaguing your House of Representatives, Save Jerseyans, like today’s passage of H.R. 702 which, if signed into law, would end a 40-year-old ban on Read More
Poll: Yea or Nay on the Pilgrim Pipeline?
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog As The Wall Street Journal‘s Holman Jenkins stingingly put it back in February, Save Jerseyans, “[a]ctivists get their jollies blocking pipeline construction, but the crude still flows through your neighborhood.” And the Read More
Either Bob Menendez has Superman vision or he’s full of crap
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Anti-drilling wackadoos are gathering in A.C. today to bitch about a federal offshore oil exploration plan, Save Jerseyans, and not unlike the anti-vaxxer crowd, their command of the facts is less-than-impressive. Politicians are playing Read More