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The libertarian moment that never was
Jerry Taylor of the Niskanen Center has a new column out for Fox News on Rand Paul’s disappearance in the Republican presidential race. Some key points: The collapse of the…
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Energy
CWIP: Corporate Welfare in Progress
Well, that isn’t exactly what CWIP stands for (it’s “Construction Work in Progress”), but in a sense it’s what CWIP is. North Carolina has had CWIP on the books since…
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North Carolina ratepayers can’t afford corporate welfare going nuclear
View in your browser. The scuttlebutt is that the General Assembly could see a proposal to allow utilities to hike electricity rates automatically in order for them to recover the…
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Some facts about CO2 in the atmosphere
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
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Both sides are wrong on energy
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
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Cato’s Online Debate Series
The Cato Institute has a monthly online debate called Cato Unbound. This month the topic is “When Corporations Hate Markets.” In the back and forth of the debate, some of…
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Federal fuel efficiency standards — a brobdingnagian mistake
That’s what Cato’s Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren argue here (although without the Swiftian adjective). Although many politicians are eager to raise the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) level…
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gasoline prices
In this interesting article on NRO Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren debunk some standard right-wing ideas about why we have high gas prices. Two comments. When was the last…
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high gasoline prices
What should the government do about the high price of gasoline these days? Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of Cato Institute argue here that the right thing to do…
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First the Theory, Now More Facts
For all my correspondents taking me to task last week for a “Daily Journal” column over at Carolina Journal Online downplaying the notion of a scarcity of oil ? and…