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Driving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice
John Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. Driving America is a well-reasoned brief on behalf of the automobile. The car is the travel option of choice because it offers a fast, comfortable, convenient, and affordable way of getting where one wants to go. Nevertheless, there are those who would sacrifice [...]
1Nov1998 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and the Car
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This essay was originally produced as a working paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A longer version appeared in Independent Review. Years before the automobile evolved into a transportation necessity, before meandering mudded ruts were replaced by multilaned asphalt, pioneering motorists took to the [...]
1Dec1997 | Loren Lomasky | 4 comments | ContinuedA Sentinel for Auto Emissions
Dr. Klein, associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University, is co-author with Pia Koskenoja of The Smog Reduction Road: Remote Sensing Versus the Clean Air Act, recently published by the Cato Institute. The 1992 Clean Air Act amendments require local governments in smoggy regions to abide by an array of tough regulations. The most [...]
1Jan1997 | Daniel B. Klein | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Electric Car Seduction
Should government enact laws to subsidize alternative fuels so that people will use less gasoline? Should government mandate the use of electric cars or other vehicles that don’t use gasoline at all? Even without expert knowledge of the issues involved, anyone who values liberty will be inclined to answer both questions in the negative. Subsidies [...]
1Nov1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Environmental Assault on Mobility
Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to attend a Federal Highway Administration workshop on air-quality analysis. This session was designed to train government bureaucrats to operate computer models for assessing a region’s compliance with federal air pollution regulations. The experience was most enlightening. Air-quality planning [...]
1Aug1995 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedMaking the Polluter Pay
Mr. Adler is Associate Director of Environmental Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The experience of the past few decades indicates that “pollution control” is often a pretext by which the federal government regulates the minutiae of each and every industrial process and economic transaction. Much of this so-called pollution control is [...]
1Mar1995 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Governments Can’t Handle Risk
Professor Simmons is the Head of the Political Science Department of Utah State University. Public opinion surveys indicate that mainstream America is worried about environmental risks.[1] In 1990, for the first time since pollsters began asking the questions, a plurality (46 percent) of American voters believed that the quality of life where they live was [...]
1Mar1995 | Randy T. Simmons | 0 comments | ContinuedEco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism
Many good books have appeared on the environment and the environmental movement in recent years. Ronald Bailey, Michael Fumento, Lou Guzzo, and Dixy Lee Ray, among others, have produced devastating studies of environmental foolishness. Thoughtful environmentalists like Wallace Kaufman and Martin Lewis have written sharp critiques of the dishonesty and radicalism of movement activists. But [...]
1Mar1995 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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