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"The Volatile Dollar," by Steve H. Hanke, Globe Asia, June 22, 2009

"It Didn't Start Here," by Alan Reynolds, New York Post, April 9, 2009

"The Next Oil Shock," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, March 26, 2009

"Stop That Energy Bill!," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 9, 2008

"Random Oil," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Forbes, September 4, 2008

"Eating Locally Not Necessarily Better," by Will Wilkinson, Marketplace, August 27, 2008

"Offshore Drilling Is a Risk Worth Taking," by Jerry Taylor, Los Angeles Times (Online), August 18, 2008

"Oil and Oily Politicians," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, August 14, 2008

"Wrong Then, Too," by Jerry Taylor, National Review, August 6, 2008

"Energy Plan Ads Just a Bunch of Wind?," by Will Wilkinson, Marketplace, July 31, 2008

"T. Boone Hard-Wired for Subsidies," by Jerry Taylor, National Post, July 24, 2008

"Weak Dollar and US Petroleum Reserves Behind Strong Oil Price," by Steve H. Hanke, Globe Asia, June 25, 2008

"Greedy Speculators?," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, June 25, 2008

"Scapegoating the Speculators," by Alan Reynolds, New York Post, June 20, 2008

"Jakarta's Fuel-Price Gauntlet," by Ross H. McLeod and Steve H. Hanke, Far Eastern Economic Review, June 3, 2008

"Solving Pump Pain," by Jerry Taylor, New York Post, June 2, 2008

"Fuels vs. Food," by Indur Goklany, New York Post, April 17, 2008

"Unnatural History," by Patrick J. Michaels, American Spectator, November 28, 2007

"Socialist Oil Death Spiral," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, November 6, 2007

"Is Ethanol the 'Energy Security' Solution?," by James Eaves and Stephen Eaves, WashingtonPost.com, October 3, 2007

"Fear and Mythology," by Daniel J. Ikenson, National Review (Online), October 2, 2007

"Be Not Afraid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 28, 2007

"All Circuits Misloaded," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 26, 2007

"Don't Raise CAFE Standards," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), August 1, 2007

"Live Earth's Inconvenient Truths," by Patrick Basham, Washington Times, July 11, 2007

"It's a Syn," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review, June 11, 2007

"BGE Ratepayers, Behold the Man," by Thomas A. Firey, The Baltimore Sun, June 1, 2007

"Congressman, Step Away from the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 25, 2007

"Paying More Than Ever For Gas? Not If Buying Power Is Considered," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, May 25, 2007

"OPEC Is Not in the House," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 24, 2007

"Dumber by the Day," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), May 16, 2007

"Wildfires Not All That's Out of Control at Forest Service," by Randal O'Toole, Examiner.com, May 2, 2007

"Don't Raise Gas Tax Without Reforms," by Thomas A. Firey, The Baltimore Sun, March 13, 2007

"Inconvenient Truths," by Patrick J. Michaels, National Review (Online), February 23, 2007

"Is Angela Lansbury President?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 21, 2007

"Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Chicago Sun-Times, January 27, 2007

"Oil Subsidies in the Dock," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), January 17, 2007

"International Energy Blather," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, South China Morning Post, December 21, 2006

"Gas Tax Trial Balloon," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, October 29, 2006

"Technological Provincialism," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, October 15, 2006

"California Focus: Prop. 87 Equals Higher Gas Prices," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, October 4, 2006

"U.S. Ignores New 'Oil Democracies' at Its Peril," by Steve H. Hanke, The Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2006

"An Argument against Oil Price Minimums," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, WashingtonPost.com, May 29, 2006

"Ready for Higher Gas Prices?," by Bart J. Wilson and Thomas A. Firey, Hartford Courant, May 28, 2006

"Market Forces Only Cure for Oil Prices," by Robert L. Bradley Jr., Fox News (Online), May 26, 2006

"Republicans Out of Gas," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 17, 2006

"Gasoline Prices in Perspective," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, May 17, 2006

"For Now, Gasoline Is Our Only Cheap Fuel," by Jerry Taylor, Arizona Republic, May 7, 2006

"Gas Prices Soar: Markets or manipulation?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, April 30, 2006

"Windfall Profits Tax Would Hardly Be Revenue Gusher," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2006

"Senate Sends in Clowns on Oil M&As," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, March 24, 2006

"Crude Predictions," by Steve H. Hanke, Forbes, March 13, 2006

"Driving Bin Laden?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), March 8, 2006

"Stuck on Empty," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 3, 2006

"Exxon's Earnings: No Apology Necessary," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, February 2, 2006

"Corner Extra: Energy Yack," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), January 31, 2006

"Running on Empty," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The New York Times, January 3, 2006

"Republicans vs. Oil," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), November 8, 2005

"Hydrocarbon Hype," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, November 6, 2005

"Price Gouging in the Public Interest," by Doug Bandow, TownHall.com, October 24, 2005

"The Foolish Factor," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, October 9, 2005

"It's Not Just Oil," by Daniel J. Ikenson, New York Post, September 8, 2005

"Strategic reserves -- no strategy," by Alan Reynolds, TownHall.com, September 1, 2005

"Redesigning Trucks," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, August 28, 2005

"Private Water Saves Lives," by Fredrik Segerfeldt, Financial Times, August 25, 2005

"The Energy Bill: It Could Have Been Worse," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2005

"Energy Bill Blues," by Jerry Taylor and Daniel Becker, Washington Times, July 30, 2005

"Burning Money Produces Scant Energy," by Jerry Taylor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 29, 2005

"Energy-Bill Follies," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), July 19, 2005

"Energy Piracy," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, July 3, 2005

"Oil Prices: Cause and Effect," by Alan Reynolds, TownHall.com, June 23, 2005

"High Pump-Price Fairy Tales," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), June 3, 2005

"Alternative-Fuel Nonsense," by Alan Reynolds, National Review (Online), May 17, 2005

"Why Gas Costs So Much In Maryland," by Thomas A. Firey, Cato.org, May 1, 2005

"High-Octane Amnesia," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2005

"Blowing Smoke On Gas Savings?," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, April 3, 2005

"Letters to the Editor: Iraq's State-Owned Oil Nullifies Market Economy," by Steve H. Hanke, Financial Times, December 23, 2004

"Take $10 off the Price of Oil," by Steve H. Hanke, Forbes, November 29, 2004

"Over a Barrel," by Steve H. Hanke, The Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2004

"No reason to cut U.S. oil imports," by Jerry Taylor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 26, 2004

"Oil and Politics," by Steve H. Hanke, Forbes, August 16, 2004

"What's Really Under Indictment?," by Jerry Taylor, The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2004

"Energy Disinformation," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, June 27, 2004

"Run for the Reserve!," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 20, 2004

"Good News About Gas Prices," by Stephen Moore, National Review (Online), May 10, 2004

"Dam Pols," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), April 5, 2004

"Oil Reserves and Politics," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, April 4, 2004

"Vapors at the Pump," by Stephen Moore, Washington Times, April 2, 2004

"Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty," by Doug Bandow, Weekly Standard, March 15, 2004

"Energy Bill Debate Confirms a Lawyer-Democrat Alliance," by Doug Bandow, Investor's Business Daily, February 3, 2004

"Energy Conservation Zealots 1, Consumers 0," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), January 21, 2004

"When Uncle Sam Owns the Land," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, November 6, 2003

"A Complete Waste of Energy," by Jerry Taylor and Daniel Becker, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2003

"A Passion That Leaves Us Powerless," by Patrick J. Michaels, Cato.org, October 1, 2003

"Gasoline Lines for California?," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, September 7, 2003

"Not Cheap, Not Green," by Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, August 4, 2003

"Let the Market Free Up Transportation in U.S.," by Peter Van Doren, The Hill, May 19, 2003

"Happy Earth Day? Thank Capitalism," by Jerry Taylor, New York Sun, April 22, 2003

"ANWR's Private Potential," by Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, April 7, 2003

"Let ’Em Gouge: A Defense of Price Gouging," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), April 1, 2003

"Balance Sheet of Gouging," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Washington Times, March 28, 2003

"Economics of Warfare Revisited," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, March 16, 2003

"Washington's Out of Its Orbit," by Patrick J. Michaels, USA Today, March 11, 2003

"Unsafe Driving Blind Spot," by Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, February 19, 2003

"Stop! Don’t Ditch Your SUV Just Yet," by Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, February 4, 2003

"Privatization and the Oil Industry: A Strategy for Postwar Iraqi Reconstruction," by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. and Ariel Cohen, National Interest, January 22, 2003

"Should the Forest Service Have Money to Burn?," by Randal O'Toole, Fox News (Online), December 18, 2002

"Anti-SUV Silliness," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), December 18, 2002

"Is Terrorism the Price of Saudi Oil?," by Doug Bandow, National Review, December 2, 2002

"It's Not About Oil?," by Charles V. Peña, Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2002

"Drought-Inspired Climate Panic," by Patrick J. Michaels, Washington Times, September 16, 2002

"Dry, Dry Again: History Gives Us A Preview of the Drought Next Time," by Patrick J. Michaels, Cato.org, September 1, 2002

"Fueled by Pork," by Edward H. Crane and Carl Pope, Cato.org, July 30, 2002

"Pricing the Fast Lane," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, July 12, 2002

"The Saudi's Con Game," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), May 14, 2002

"An Oil Embargo Won't Work," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2002

"Government Should Steer Clear of the Fuel Economy Issue," by William A. Niskanen and Peter Van Doren, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2002

"Markets Work Magic," by Jerry Taylor, USA Today, December 24, 2001

"Energy Illogic," by Patrick J. Michaels, Washington Times, December 6, 2001

"Oil Weapon Myth," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), December 5, 2001

"Don't Worry About Energy Security," by Jerry Taylor, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2001

"No Matter What, The Oil Will Flow," by Jerry Taylor, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2001

"Panic at the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 14, 2001

"Where Did the Energy Crisis Go?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 4, 2001

"Leave Those SUVs Alone," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), August 14, 2001

"Bush's Energy Babble," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), September 30, 2000

"Drain the strategic petroleum reserve," by Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, September 26, 2000

"No Need to Panic over Oil Prices: Don't Believe the Politicians' Rhetoric," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), September 7, 2000

"Slick Trick," by Jerry Taylor, St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 11, 2000

"Extended Parade of Horribles," by Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, June 24, 2000

"Bad Government Policies Fuel Gas Prices," by Jerry Taylor, Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2000

"The State of the World: Doom or Boom?," by Jerry Taylor, Manchester Union-Leader, January 27, 1999

"Smaller Cars Can Save Fuel But Cost Lives," by Jerry Taylor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 19, 1991



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