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Just Say No to Embalming
In this two minute video the Insitute for Justice points out the injustice of the Government making entrepreneurs “do useless things for no reason?” Verlin Stoll has built a successful business because...
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How Marxism Killed Keystone
The global warming apocalypse and its Elmer Gantry, Al Gore, may have faded from public view lately, but that old-time green religion is still making mischief. President Obama has just delayed until...
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The Market Value of Iranian Threats
It’s a banner week for Iran: opportunities abound for its rulers to demand international attention and, perhaps, distract Iranians from repeating their 2009 dissent against a government and ruling...
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Hunting Endangered Species
The scimitar horned oryx . . . the addax . . . the dama gazelle – endangered animals one would expect to encounter in Africa. Yet, as some Texas ranches are proving, helping to bring back large numbers...
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Nature Fakery
At the turn of the twentieth century, President Theodore Roosevelt became embroiled in a public controversy over how some writers and naturalists described the natural world in overly anthropomorphic...
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So Are High Gas Prices Good or Bad?
As the global economy gets better, as we freeze federal leases, and as the Middle East heats up, will $5-a-gallon summer gas be good or bad? Suddenly the administration seems to think that high energy...
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Trade a Tortoise
Two years ago in PERC Reports Todd Gartner wrote, “I am helping the American Forest Foundation develop a market-based habitat credit trading system in portions of Georgia and Alabama. The...
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Why the White House is Worried
On the surface, the White House and Team Obama in Chicago have a lot to cheer about. According to the Real Clear Politics average, President Barack Obama’s approval rating is up to 48 percent. By...
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Is There a Clearer Case of Media Bias? Gas Prices under Bush and Obama
The Times’ March 1 news piece Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon reflects an obvious media bias. As the Times news piece claims, rising gas prices are the result of international events over...
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In America power and fuel are separate issues
In his weekly address President Obama said: But you and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices – not when consume 20 percent of the...
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Nearly doubling renewable energy generation
Today the Administration released their Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future: One-Year Progress Report. Almost every time President Obama talks about energy he mentions wind and solar power. He used to...
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More Speculation Nonsense
I regret that the “profitable speculation” diagram has disappeared from economics texts. If more people knew it, we could avoid unnecessary nonsense. Even observers from the right have no idea of the...
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My Diminished Capacity to Understand Obama’s Clean Energy Policy
It took President Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney to shock me to my senses. As someone who favors cutting government spending on clean energy and eliminating government subsidies in general, I was...
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Subsidizing wind and solar because China and Germany are doing it
Here is President Obama speaking in Ohio Thursday: We also need to keep investing in clean energy like wind power and solar power. … And as long as I’m President, we are going to keep on making those...
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The Problem with a Variable Tax on Gasoline
This is from Jim McTague, “Obama is Humbled by the Market,” Barron’s, March 24, 2012. Greg Mankiw linked to it this morning. I’m guessing that what caught Greg’s attention was the article’s advocacy of...
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Fracking and Self-Sufficiency in Gas and Oil
More or less every American president starting with Dwight Eisenhower, and prioritized by Richard Nixon, called for American self-sufficiency in energy sources. In fact, America is now about...
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An Inconvenient Truth From the NYT on Hybrid and Electric Cars
The venerable New York Times has been a reliable cheer leader for electric and hybrid cars in its A “news” section. Its "Business Day" section is for readers who base business decisions on what they...
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How Green Is My Folly
European parliamentarians want the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to demand that all nations hew to a sweeping legal claim: that international law forbids nations to...
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Dependent No More
There is a revolution going on in America, but it is not driven by the tea party or the Occupy Wall Street protests. Instead, massive new reserves of gas, oil, and coal are being discovered almost...
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Navigating California’s Electricity Maze
Tweet In a time of continuing budget deficits and record-high taxes, Californians are currently spending billions of dollars annually on eleven different, often overlapping, renewable and distributed...
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