Glen Meakem is a successful technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative talk radio show host, who offers information and insights on how individuals, our states, and our nation can be more successful. Glen’s unique perspective has been shaped by his experiences as founder, chairman and CEO of the B2B internet success Freemarkets Inc – which [...]

The study -which was conducted by a group of Yale economists – added up ALL of the costs of natural gas, including very generous estimates of indirect costs often referred to as “externalities” like air pollution, health problems, “global warming,” etc.  The study concluded that “not even inflated costs associated with unrealistically high incidences of [...]

As posted at The Center for Vision and Values
By Robert T. Smith
We can’t drill our way to energy independence. Or so proclaims the president and many of his supporters. Here in Pennsylvania, the proclamation rings hollow; we are in the midst of a historic natural gas boom.
Pennsylvania has an abundant supply of natural gas locked [...]

There’s “not one case” of gas migrating up into water wells Because of “fracking.”
Watch the Fox News report below

Even the New York Times is catching on to the economic benefits of Natural Gas production.

The rapid development of shale gas technology has helped reduce energy imports and, in some cases, encouraged companies producing petrochemicals, steel, fertilizers [...]

The cost of gasoline today is at its highest point ever during winter, an ominous sign of what might be on the horizon in the months to come.
According to government data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average price of regular unleaded is $3.34 over the three-month period of December, January and February. The [...]

From the Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2011
The U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution, and we don’t mean solar panels or wind turbines. A new gusher of natural gas from shale has the potential to transform U.S. energy production—that is, unless politicians, greens and the industry mess it up.
Only a [...]

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This weekend, Glen talks about the latest negative economic headlines, President Obama’s political decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserve, the need for entitlement reform, the need for government spending reform, the NATO mission in Libya, and the President’s recent decisions on Afghanistan.
What do you think?  Should Congress raise taxes, [...]

By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

Saudi Arabia has long been the dominant producer of petroleum on the planet. Nature endowed the Arabian Peninsula with gigantic deposits of this vital source of energy. Many of us have lamented the quirk of nature that placed much-needed oil [...]

John Stossel of Fox’s Business News talks with John Hanger (Environmentalist and former Pennsylvania DEP Secretary) and Matthew Brouillette (CEO and President of the Commonwealth Foundation) about the movie “Gasland,” and the Marcellus shale natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing.  Click on the image below to watch the video.

You can read some of [...]

via Drudgereport.com
This weekend, Glen talks about how the White House is handling the economy, the ongoing crisis in Libya, and our national energy situation like amateurs.  Dr. Paul Kengor (Executive Director of the Center for Vision and Values), Sara Mohsin (co-founder and owner of Mohsin Mortgage Company), and Matt Pitzarella (an executive with Range Resources) [...]