...native Duluth, but he went out of business in 1987, a setback he attributes to the end of the Carter-era solar-energy tax credits. He formed World Power Technologies in 1989 and has been responsible for several innovations in wind generators...

...we are in our current state is not high, but low gas taxes. The other industrial nations pay far more than we do in energy taxes. When the price of oil dropped from $20 a barrel to $10, gas was so cheap that people stopped demanding fuel efficiency...

...bill by 26-17 vote, including the Arctic drilling. Another piece of the package, as well as a number of proposed energy tax breaks, were expected to move through different committees later Wednesday as the House presses to send energy legislation...

...The new trust in government has played to Republicans' benefit since the attacks. Tough congressional fights over energy, taxes and the deficit could bring a more partisan response, pollsters suggest.

...drilling and whose Republican leaders have shown no signs of backing down. The Senate bill calls for $14.1 billion in energy tax subsidies ranging from help to refiners to meet sulfur-control regulations and reduce the cost of power from wind turbines...

For all the talk about energy, taxes and health care, the first economic policy challenge to face the next president could be coping with a crisis at Fannie Mae and...

...deserves immediate attention from Minnesotans: the Senate's new cap-and-trade climate bill, a mammoth national energy tax that would crush our struggling economy. An internal Treasury Department memo recently revealed the Obama Administration...

...Unfortunately, much of the Senate does not share his enthusiasm. Many Republicans would rather rail against a "national energy tax" than acknowledge the need to enlist market forces to reduce U.S. dependence on oil and coal; many Democrats don't...

...Congressman Oberstar has done to us. He has supported nearly every spending bill that has been put before him especially the energy tax. It is time his economic policies impact him personally. Let's put him on the unemployment line. Dale Probasco Pine...

...Congressman Oberstar has done to us. He has supported nearly every spending bill that has been put before him especially the energy tax. It is time his economic policies impact him personally. Let's put him on the unemployment line. Dale Probasco Pine...