Archive for Ben Lieberman
Gasoline Prices: Why So High Last Spring?
Ben Lieberman is senior policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Gasoline prices rose an average of 31 cents per gallon between late March and May of this year, with consumers in some parts of California and the upper midwest paying more than two dollars well into June. As with other recent [...]
1Oct2001 | Ben Lieberman | 1 comment | ContinuedExploiting Asthmatic Children
Ben Lieberman is a policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Childhood asthma is on the rise, and the experts are not sure why. The Environmental Protection Agency blames air pollution, and uses concerns about asthmatic children to justify its aggressive implementation of the Clean Air Act. In contrast, a recent National Academy of Sciences [...]
1Aug2000 | Ben Lieberman | 0 comments | ContinuedWasting Energy on Energy Efficiency
Ben Lieberman is a policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Few aspects of our daily lives are more heavily regulated by the federal government than our use of energy. The cars and trucks we drive, the structures in which we live and work, and virtually every major appliance we use has [...]
1Apr1999 | Ben Lieberman | 3 comments | Continued-
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