“Politicians want lower gas and oil prices but don’t want more production to increase supply. They want oil “independence” but they’ve declared off limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that […]
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Apr18th2008
What Is A Libertarian?
Published by in Capitalism, Economics, Environment, General, ModernPolitics and Myths. 0 CommentsDo you want to know what a Libertarian really believes in? Listen to the father of modern day Libertarianism, Milton Friedman define it without all the distortions and misrepresentations from those who claim to know what libertarianism is.
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Mar4th2008
Environmentalism: Luxury Of The Rich
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Environment, General and Personal. 11 CommentsGoing through the trouble of getting my smog check this weekend reminded me of one of my pet peeves in politics: wealthy environmentalists feeling moral about themselves while others (primarily the poor) pay the burden.
Here in California, in order to register your car you have to get a smog check every two years. They typically […]
Dec11th2007
“Since electricity is generated mostly by burning coal, has anyone calculated how much pollution is created by electric cars, even though none of that pollution comes out of their tailpipes?” –Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts
Aug30th2007
Probably not on net balance, but it can certainly have some positive affects. For example, Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton writes:
The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where air is cold and dry, mainly in the arctic rather than in the tropics, mainly in mountainous regions […]
Oct18th2006
“I recently have started using the well-known book, The Skeptical Evironmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg…In the section on forests, Lomborg states that in the previous 50 years before publication (in 2001), contrary to the assertions of various people and organisations, the total area of land covered by woods and forests barely changed at all. He cites […]
Oct11th2006
“If you think that government would never force consumers to buy “boutique” products when consumers would prefer to buy mass-produced products, you’re mistaken. In a new paper — “Market Fragmenting Regulation: Why Gasoline Costs So Much (and Why it’s Going to Cost Even More)” — University of Illinois law professor Andrew Morriss and Mercatus Center […]
Oct10th2006
Phelim McAleer, environmentalist and former writer for the Financial Times, describes his new documentary and why he decided to make it:
Speakout: Environmentalists are new foes of some of the world’s poorest
Colorado’s miners have struggled long and hard for the right to organize and have safe working conditions.
Many have paid with their lives in this […]
Aug23rd2006
“This is because the solution to the energy crisis is so blindingly obvious. The solution is: allow the oil companies to drill for oil—in Alaska, in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of California, on all the land mass of the United States now set aside as “wild-life preserves” and “wilderness” areas. Allow the […]
May23rd2006
“High gas prices aren’t easy on consumers. Most households could find a much better way to spend $1,000 than on filling up the tank. But if there’s a better way to restructure the energy market, expand supplies, and create a long-term source of stable and affording fuel, we haven’t found it yet. We’ve tried ethanol […]
May22nd2006
“Let us take a minute, then, to stick up for the big guys and ask, what’s wrong with large profits for large oil companies? If a healthy profit margin–about 10% for the oil giants–is a problem, it comes with a built-in solution. Large profits create large incentives to increase supplies, build more refining capacity, and […]
May19th2006
“At Oxford Ghosn presents a gift of $2.7 million from Nissan to fund a Japanese studies program and then turns to one of his favorite activities–meeting with a group of graduate students. When one student asks why Nissan lags behind Toyota in new hybrid vehicles, Ghosn shoots back: “When you have technology that costs $6,000 […]
May15th2006
“Price movements up or down provide incentives for people to consume less or to consume more — and to produce more or produce less. From the standpoint of the economy as a whole, the history of any particular batch of oil is irrelevant. Prices need to ration all oil according to existing supply and demand. […]
May12th2006
“Ironically, the people who are making the most noise about the high price of gasoline are the very people who have for years blocked every attempt to increase our own oil supply. They have opposed drilling for oil off the Atlantic coast, off the Pacific coast, or in Alaska. They have prevented the building of […]
May11th2006
Alan Murray writes in the Wall Street Journal:
Give Rex Tillerson some credit. The new chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp. ventured out of his executive cocoon last week to be interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show — an act of courage for an oil company CEO….
Mr. Lauer is no Sam Donaldson. Still, […]
May11th2006
“What has also happened in recent times has been that higher gasoline prices bring outraged charges of “gouging” by Big Oil. Some of the most emotionally powerful political words and phrases are wholly undefined — “exploitation,” “greed,” “social justice” and the perennial favorite, “gouging.” Are the oil companies charging all that the traffic will bear? […]
