Do you “spend” savings on projects that will create future prosperity for you and your family?   If you do, you are actually “investing.”   Most consumers and businesses invest; we upgrade houses or equipment and we buy financial assets.  We invest in mundane projects such as replacing a leaky roof, or in speculative projects such as [...]

This ConsumerGram examines how the shift from purchasing to the Internet is not only influencing retailers, but also positively affecting the environment by reducing energy and decreasing air pollutants, hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Cyber Monday can now be looked upon as Green Monday in more ways than one.  Click here to read [...]

Among the cleanest and most promising technologies in energy production doesn’t come from the sun or the wind or the waters.  Hydraulic fracturing, a newly perfected way to extract natural gas from the ground, gives American energy a breath of new hope, as our reliance on foreign energy sources has been on the rise. Now [...]

ACI president, Steve Pociask, presented at the American Legislative Exchange Council conference in Pheonix, Arizona on December 2, 2011 on the top “Economic Facts and Consumer Opinions about Expanding U.S. Energy Production.”

In 2010, US families spent an average $3,454 on gasoline & oil, fuel oil, and natural gas, and $1,705 more for electric utilities, which rely on coal, oil and natural gas for the bulk of their power generation.  Excepting hybrids or battery-only automobile models, our transportation system does not use coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, [...]

The US GDP is growing too slowly to create enough jobs to tame 9.1 percent unemployment.  New business formations have traditionally been a major source of job creation, but since 2007 formations have been 20% below normal or 1.8 million jobs short of normal pace.  McKinsey estimates 21 million jobs need to be created by [...]

As unemployment still hovers above 9 percent and with a meager 58,000 jobs added in September, now would be the time for President Obama to do whatever he can do to help propel job growth.  Rather than another jobs bill with billions in hidden immediate costs and decades of issues to come, there are tangible [...]

For 3 years, a partisan spitting match has dominated Congress and the White House, while consumers experience painful challenges daily; jobs, government spending and low growth.  Instead of effective solutions, our politicians demand extremist-inspired remedies then demagogue anyone who objects.  They cynically try to hijack our basest emotions as a way to boost their own [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – A new national poll released today finds that the vast majority of consumers support an expansion of energy projects as a way to boost job growth among American workers.  The poll also revealed that most consumers are pessimistic about the health of the economy, and the vast majority support expanding energy initiatives [...]

Economics professor Joseph Fuhr comments on the economic effects that would result if the Sunoco Refinery in Marcus Hook were to close. The article was published in the Delaware County Daily Times on September 8, 2011.