On Saturday, Greens around the world will turn off their lights in a symbolic “Earth Hour” gesture against climate change, the term they adapted in the face of the fact that the Earth has been cooling for seventeen years and is on the cusp of a mini-ice age that will ensure cold weather for many years to come.

What if I told you that the government was blocking America’s prosperity in the form of enormous untapped energy reserves that represent wealth and jobs that would once again put America on the path to fiscal security and growth?

The petrodollar story has a little bit of everything. Hope, ambition, political intrigue, mystery, treachery, greed, deceit, betrayal, despair, poverty, envy, wealth, frustration, anger, courage, rage, conflict, revenge, retribution and more and more and on and on it goes ….

Let’s continue the story with yet another quote from Marin Katusa, not only someone who knows what he’s talking about, but someone who can actually write:

Like all great performers Obama has saved the best for last. 

Mexico's state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, better known as Pemex, said it has found a massive new gas reserve in the Gulf of Mexico.

By the office of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

Today, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) sent letters to Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Panetta to express outrage over Americans dying so that Afghan President Karzai’s family and Communist Chinese state owned oil companies can get rich.

Some fallacious notions are at work here. If you trade regularly and know the ins and outs of the futures market, skip the next few paragraphs. This is for those who are confused about speculators and hedgers, buying and selling and long and short. It is a greatly simplified overview but hopefully with enough information to eliminate some common falsehoods around which certain pundits and politicians love to create hysteria. After reading this however, you will not, I repeat, not, be able to make a quick fortune in the futures market. My purpose is to give a basic understanding of the miracle of voluntary trade of which the exchanges and their hedgers and speculators are an important part.

by Congressman Mike Pompeo

This week the Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions. According to a recent Washington Post article, “the move could end the construction of new conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.”