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Discovery Institute fellow: Keystone delay sends wrong message

Scott S. Powell
April 26, 2014
Economics
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After some 40 years of OPEC cartel codependence, many Americans recognize the symbolic importance of the Keystone XL pipeline. It means greater freedom and security. So the latest delay on the decision to go forward on the pipeline construction also calls into question the commitment of Washington to the vital and very achievable goal of energy independence for the United States.

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Scott S. Powell

Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty
Scott Powell has worked in the corporate, academic, and research worlds. He has taught at two universities, served on two corporate boards, and been an entrepreneur—founding two companies. He has been Senior Fellow at the  Discovery Institute since 2012, after a six-year affiliation with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has written three books and over 350 published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Newsmax, The Federalist ,USA Today, Barron’s Financial, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, and some 50 other newspapers and journals in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He delivered the valedictory address at his graduation from the University of Chicago with honors (B.A. and M.A.) and received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.