Rare Earth Minerals, Japan, and National Security Implications
One of the more important but mainly overlooked resources related to national security are rare earth minerals. A recent discovery...
Energy Security
The Center works in coalition with other think-tanks and businesses to change the energy security future for America, through development of new technologies and infrastructure, changed policies to reduce dependence on foreign and adversarial suppliers, and new initiatives to develop U.S. resources.
Ultimately, the best way for us to collapse the price of oil is to create competition at the pump. For only $100 per car, automakers can build a flexible fuel engine in every car they sell – which will give every consumer a choice in fuels. An Open Fuel Standard, requiring that every new car sold in the United States be a flexible fuel vehicle, would break oil’s transportation fuel monopoly.
Jack Spencer: After Japan (Assessing Nuclear Energy in America)
The Heritage Foundation's Jack Spencer addresses the Center for Security Policy's National Security Group on Capitol Hill. The topic of...
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Homegrown Defense: Biofuels & National Security
The Center for Security Policy Press is pleased to announce the release of it's third book, Homegrown: Defense: Biofuels and...
The oil leak’s silver lining?
It is hard to see anything positive about the offshore drilling debacle that has countless barrels of oil washing ashore...
Growing Cap and Trade on the tax farm
President Obama has called for a determined effort to free America from the hold of the international oil cartel. As...
Economic stimulus solutions include tax-deductible down payments, Flex-Fuel laws and trips to Mars
Congress is currently debating an economic stimulus package that would spend nearly a trillion dollars on measures of doubtful timeliness...
Gustavo Coronel on Chavez’s Oil Weapon
Mr. Coronel, an expert on Venezuela's petroleum industry, spoke at a briefing on Capitol Hill entitled, "Venezuela and the threat...
Fact vs. fiction on food vs. fuel
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally,...
Fact vs. fiction on food vs. fuel
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally,...
The Autos’ perfect storm
Meltdown in the financial sector. Recent spikes in oil prices. Democratic electoral gains throughout Washington, made possible in part by...
A Bear energy market
Along with a rapid military victory in Georgia, Vladimir Putin succeeded with another weapon in Russia's effort to divide and...
LNG port security
Rising oil and gas prices, environmental concerns and the possibility of domestic gas shortages have drastically increased demand for Liquefied...
Energy freedom
A wag once famously observed that, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." The same has...
The war with Iran
Last week's Iranian missile tests prompted another round of fevered speculation that war might erupt between Iran and the United...
The Open Fuel Standard
There is a "perfect storm" of national security, economic, and environmental conditions that compel the United States to begin immediately...
‘Tax’ Revolt
On the eve of the 4th of July, 2008, Americans are arguably as angry about being taxed without representation as...