We all know that when the price of oil goes up Americans are negatively affected. High oil prices increase our gasoline expenditures, constricting household budgets, and cause the price of everything that is transported or produced using oil (which is basically… Continue Reading →
By now, who hasn’t heard about the oil boom in the United States? Higher oil prices and new extraction techniques are largely credited for creating a rash of new oil fields, resulting in domestic production soaring to levels that haven’t… Continue Reading →
Famous for Volvo, Ikea and Absolut Vodka, Sweden is now on a new pursuit to become the first completely oil-free economy in the world by 2020.
The oil crisis in the early 1970s forced Sweden to embark on a quest… Continue Reading →
Fuel Freedom Foundation is proud to announce that former Shell Oil president John Hofmeister has joined its board of advisors. As a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to breaking America’s oil addiction, the foundation is especially humbled to be working with a… Continue Reading →
“The natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence…much of our newfound energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and… Continue Reading →
As an avid “South Park” watcher, I can’t help but find irony in recent articles that blame ethanol for a host of problems, including a chicken wing shortage just before the Super Bowl. In the movie, “SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and… Continue Reading →
When introducing the iPhone, Steve Jobs said, “Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” Fast-forward just six years later: for most of us it’s hard to imagine what the world would be like without those magical devices. Not only… Continue Reading →
The word potpourri could mean a collage of wonderful vegetables, meats and fish, or, for the French, it could be a rotting bowl of soup. Ah, those French! In the world of public policy, a potpourri of policies can be… Continue Reading →
The influential and widely read U.K. daily, The Guardian, has taken an in-depth look at Fuel Freedom Foundation co-founder Eyal Aronoff’s solution to America’s “oil addiction.” Noting that Aronoff’s business card identifies him as an “oil addiction therapist,” U.S. correspondent… Continue Reading →
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2012 generated a mostly enthusiastic response, rather than criticism, regarding its prediction that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer by 2020 and become virtually energy independent… Continue Reading →
