Energy and Entrepreneurs

by Raymond J. Keating –  While the Biden administration, many in Congress, and an assortment of extreme green activists seek to end the use of oil and natural gas, the American people show themselves to be far more sane in a new poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute (API). […]

by Raymond J. Keating – While the Biden White House and their allies in Congress actively work to undermine the oil and natural gas sector, such efforts effectively serve to undermine the U.S. economy and small businesses. The American Petroleum Institute has just published a PWC study titled “Impacts of the Oil and Natural Gas […]

The Strength of Small Business America Depends on Affordable Energy H.R. 1 Fuels Economic Stability and Security for Main Street   Dear Member of the U.S. House: On behalf of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council), I am writing to express our organization’s strong support of H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. – The following statement can be attributed to Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) president & CEO Karen Kerrigan on this week’s vote in the U.S. House on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act: “The high cost of energy is impacting every small business across America, a frustrating […]

In a February 21 opinion piece in The Detroit News, SBE Council chief economist Raymond Keating writes that small businesses depend on sound policies from our nation’s leaders to provide a foundation for growth. And that includes “smart policies on energy and energy infrastructure that assure business owners will have the power to fuel innovation […]

by Raymond J. Keating – The history of energy production is laden with predictions about resource decline and exhaustion, and each one has turned out to be dead wrong. There are a host of reasons for these wrongheaded predictions, but most tend to tie back to the failure to consider innovation. New and improved ways […]

The Honorable James Comer Chairman Committee on Oversight and Accountability U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.  20515   Dear Chairman Comer: The House Oversight Committee report, under the previous congressional leadership, that maligned American energy companies was a misuse and failure of the oversight process. The authors’ bias against fossil fuel-based energy was obvious in […]

by Raymond J. Keating – The recovery of the U.S. oil and natural gas sector has been a good news story amidst lingering pandemic economic woes, misguided and costly public policy decisions, recession realities and threats, and of course, Russia’s continuing egregious war against Ukraine. And small business plays a big part. In the following […]

Europe seems to be out front of the U.S. in a variety of ways on the policy front, and by “out front,” I mean that Europe leads the way in a wrongheaded direction on policymaking. Unfortunately, too many elected officials and their appointees in the U.S. are more than willing to follow Europe down the […]

by Raymond J. Keating –  The U.S. energy sector is amazingly resilient, especially given that the federal government has been so virulently anti-U.S. oil and natural gas for 10 of the last 14 years, including under the current administration and Congress. Indeed, despite policy hostility during this period, and thanks to private investment, entrepreneurship and […]