Energy
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Jumps 0.61 Percent in February 2026
Official CPI suggests moderating inflation, but our in-house index clocks the largest increase in 13 months. Affordability will worsen with the outbreak of war with Iran.
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Nuclear Power Needs Realism, Freedom
Decades of subsidies, regulation, and unmet promises have left nuclear power costly and uncompetitive.
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Davos Chickens Come Home to Roost
Davos elites’ relevance may not quite be at an end, but it’s hard to imagine it ever regaining the reputation or status it once had.
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Trump’s Maduro Move: Geopolitics Has Returned to Energy Markets
Recent US action in Venezuela is most plausibly a White House bid to control the flow of black market oil — not drugs.
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America’s Next Industrial Geography: Wherever the Power Is Cheap
Data centers will power the next century, but the grid isn’t ready. The quest for capacity is reorganizing political alliances and showing up in rate hikes.
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Data Centers Aren’t the Only Reason Electricity Prices Are Surging
Government regulations and new taxes are adding a hidden ‘policy premium’ to electricity costs.
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Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
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Oil Prices Tumble As Competition Revives Supply
Oil has fallen 20 percent in three months. As Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies take hold, prices are falling and markets, like consumers, are remembering how freedom feels.
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Texas Trounces California in Energy Production—But the Policy Gap Is Closing
Texas’s energy sector outproduces California’s, delivering lower prices and greater reliability. But government meddling threatens to undo many of these benefits.
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Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels? I Asked — Here’s What It Said
Our mammoth energy demands can’t be met without fossil fuels. From the future of work to national security, we’ll need reliable power supplies at affordable prices.
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Jumps 0.61 Percent in February 2026
Official CPI suggests moderating inflation, but our in-house index clocks the largest increase in 13 months. Affordability will worsen with the outbreak of war with Iran.
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•
Nuclear Power Needs Realism, Freedom
Decades of subsidies, regulation, and unmet promises have left nuclear power costly and uncompetitive.
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•
Davos Chickens Come Home to Roost
Davos elites’ relevance may not quite be at an end, but it’s hard to imagine it ever regaining the reputation or status it once had.
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•
Trump’s Maduro Move: Geopolitics Has Returned to Energy Markets
Recent US action in Venezuela is most plausibly a White House bid to control the flow of black market oil — not drugs.
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•
America’s Next Industrial Geography: Wherever the Power Is Cheap
Data centers will power the next century, but the grid isn’t ready. The quest for capacity is reorganizing political alliances and showing up in rate hikes.
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•
Data Centers Aren’t the Only Reason Electricity Prices Are Surging
Government regulations and new taxes are adding a hidden ‘policy premium’ to electricity costs.
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•
Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
-
•
Oil Prices Tumble As Competition Revives Supply
Oil has fallen 20 percent in three months. As Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies take hold, prices are falling and markets, like consumers, are remembering how freedom feels.
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•
Texas Trounces California in Energy Production—But the Policy Gap Is Closing
Texas’s energy sector outproduces California’s, delivering lower prices and greater reliability. But government meddling threatens to undo many of these benefits.
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•
Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels? I Asked — Here’s What It Said
Our mammoth energy demands can’t be met without fossil fuels. From the future of work to national security, we’ll need reliable power supplies at affordable prices.