Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.

From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill.

Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.