Much like scores of political hopefuls before him, Presidential candidate Barack Obama rode to power on the campaign promise of bipartisanship.  In office, however, his attempts at finding common ground have often been less than successful.  Although the reasons why vary, both parties

If oil and gas from the domestic shale boom are going to take the US to energy independence, will it be by pipeline, rail, or truck? Production and consumption patterns were at the center of the decades-long development of America’s pipeline infrastructure, which actually dates all th