All Posts Tagged With: "cap and trade"
A Free-Market Energy Vision
Energy is the master resource. Without it other resources could not be produced or consumed. Even energy requires energy: There would not be usable oil, gas, or coal without the energy to manufacture and power the requisite tools and machinery. Nor would there be wind turbines or solar panels, which are monuments to embedded fossil-fuel [...]
29Jun2010 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedSome Utility Companies Want Cap and Trade Now
“Utility executives are stepping up calls for legislation to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, fearing that if Congress doesn’t act, the EPA will establish rules that would be costlier and less effective.” (Wall Street Journal, Monday) Summary of domestic energy policy debate: Devil you know or the devil you don’t? FEE Timely Classic: “The Perverse Popularity of [...]
9Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedCap and Trade 101
Paul Krugman is trying to lecture us about the economics of cap and trade this morning. He has a nice little graphic explaining the relationship between caps and costs. He insists that the blue “rents” in the chart should not be factored as costs because: The creation of cap and trade means that emission permits [...]
27Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 5 comments | ContinuedClimate Change: What if They’re Right?
What do Pat Robertson, Gregg Easterbrook, and Michael Shermer have in common? They’ve all moved from climate-change skepticism to the “global warming consensus.” These leading lights may help guide others toward this consensus too. And given the possibility that believers in global warming are right, I’d like to be charitable and suppose that, first, this [...]
1Jan2007 | Max Borders | 20 comments | ContinuedThe Impossibility of Harming the Environment
“The ‘polluter pays principle’ states that whoever is responsible for damage to the environment should bear the costs associated with it.” —United Nations Environmental Programme1 The “polluter pays principle” appeals to our sense of justice. People should be held responsible for their actions, and polluters who cause damage to others should “pay” for that damage. [...]
1May2002 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | Continued-
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