The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. STATE OF THE UNION  

President Bush calls for more federal spending on alternative energy sources, proclaiming that the United States is “addicted to oil.”

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell quoted in CNSNews.com on the President’s “confused thinking” on energy.

2. STATE OF THE UNION  II  

The Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union address calls for oil companies to give up some of their profits.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on why attacking profitable oil companies produces a windfall of bad ideas.

3. BUSINESS

United Airlines emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but only after shifting billions of dollars of pension obligations onto the federal government.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on why U.S. taxpayers shouldn’t be in the business of bailing out corporate pension plans.

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