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Submitted By Carole Havens
Three Important Questions
1. Regardless of your age, are you prepared to handle a medical crisis or an incapacitating injury that affects you or your loved one, if it happened today?
2. Are you prepared if an unexpected death happened to you or a loved one today?
3. Have you ever been faced with making medical or financial decisions on behalf of a loved one? [Read more...]
By Seth Whitehead, Executive Director, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board
Since passage of the $369 billion climate bill, those who believe we can rely entirely “green” energy have doubled down on claims that these technologies will lower energy costs, make the United States energy independent and eliminate the need for oil altogether. These are the three biggest myths of the “energy transition” narrative. [Read more...]
Jason (J.R.) Hubele was The Villagers' Voice guest columnist for the April Fool's day columns that ran April 1 this year. Jason writes satire, defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. But at the core of satire, it is still commentary on the state of politics, education, culture and current events. Let us know if you enjoy Jason's satirical look at things.
By J.R. Hubele [Read more...]
Much of the blame for record pump prices has been directed at so-called “Big Oil” companies and their renouncement of the “drill, baby, drill” philosophy in exchange for a focus on investor returns.
Though simple supply-demand dynamics, refining constraints and a general hostility toward oil and gas development are the primary reasons for skyrocketing energy prices, it is true that publicly traded U.S. oil production companies are being more conservative with their drilling plans after years of operating in the red. [Read more...]
Submitted by Mike Rowe
Now that Enfield has been put on the map (temporarily) with it’s very own traffic light that has three different colors, it is time to go all out and fly all our colors. That traffic light coming in from the south on Hwy 45 is just past the place where we tore down the very first college in Illinois. We have commemorated that hallowed ground with a gas station that serves a mean pizza and shrimp basket. [Read more...]
Submitted by Seth Whitehead <seth@iprb.org>
When it comes to energy, rhetoric sure seems to get a lot more attention than reality.
If many politicians and media outlets were to be believed, the “green” energy transition is just around the corner and the permanent cancellation of our hydrocarbon fuel-driven society is imminent. But in reality, we are going to need even more traditional energy sources such as oil and natural gas than we are currently using in the near future. And it’s not just the fossil fuel industry making that assertion. [Read more...]
Submitted by Seth Whitehead, Executive Director, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board
As gasoline prices soar to unprecedented levels, the narrative that oil companies are price gouging at the pump is becoming quite prevalent. But as Politico recently reported, though many are blaming oil companies for high prices, “the facts don’t back them up.”
Facts are indeed a stubborn thing. [Read more...]