Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Kenneth P. Green: Subsidy-Powered Vehicles
Continuing the long history of failure. Even with modern technology, electric cars are not capable of satisfying consumer desires. Policymakers should end their wasteful counter-market pursuit of vehicle electrification. Environmentalists have long wished for the electrification of passenger vehicles. As Professor Vaclav Smil points out in ... MOREWilliam Tucker: It Will Be Hot In Texas This Summer
Courtesy of federal energy policies. Texas, the most energy-intensive state in the nation, could be facing a severe electrical shortage this summer. How could such a thing happen? Mainly, it's the result of a long series of federal interventions that have finally left the state turning in circles about what to do next. First, the gory details. Last summer ... MOREDaniel Simmons: The Illogic Of EPA Carbon Regulations
President Obama is getting what he hoped for in 2008—higher energy prices. By having his Environmental Protection Agency, known as the EPA, implement regulations that contribute to higher energy prices through new burdens on power plants, the agency is now effectively responsible for numerous plant closures and the cancellation of new power plants ... MOREJonah Goldberg: Very Few Of The Above
Obama's energy policy is rather picky. In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get reelected. For instance, Romney charged that “as president,” Obama “delayed the development of our ... MORERobin Zubrin: Carbon Emissions Are Good
Always check your premises. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intention to enforce regulations that would effectively ban new coal-fired power plants in the United States. As coal is by far America’s cheapest and most plentiful fossil fuel, and coal-fired power stations account for 45 percent of all electricity generated ... MOREMatt Patterson: Obama Kills Coal - As Promised
Higher electricity prices will affect the poor most. “If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”- Candidate Barack Obama, 2008. Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. This week, the unelected, unaccountable ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Feds Pay $10M For $50 Light Bulb
Government's attempt to provide cheap green lighting. In 2007, when Congress passed legislation that would gradually ban old school incandescent light bulbs, they added a carrot to the pile of sticks: A $10 million dollar prize to encourage the development of a cheap, green, domestic light bulb to replace the dearly departed Edison model. ... MORERoger Stone: For Energy Independence, Frack We Must
For jobs and cheap energy for millions of Americans. As the price of oil shoots through the roof because of political instability, and the inability of the Obama Administration to say yes to Canadian oil and thousands of jobs, we have to turn to other energy sources. Fortunately, there’s a cleaner and safer opportunity in natural gas right here in the United States. ... MORE
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