All Posts Tagged With: "energy conservation"
A Higher Gasoline Tax Will “Solve Everything”?
Regrettably, I have to criticize someone who, in the past, I have admired a great deal. John Tierney is an iconoclastic columnist for the New York Times who has been writing on environmental issues for at least a decade. His now-classic 1996 Times Magazine story critical of recycling was a well-researched article that I have [...]
1Apr2006 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedEnergy Production versus Conservation
One of the most important insights in economics was made by F.A. Hayek in a famous article titled “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (American Economic Review, September 1945). Hayek’s insight was simple, but powerful: the information necessary for making sensible economic choices is far too dispersed and difficult to articulate ever to be possessed by any one person or group of experts.
1Dec2001 | Dwight R. Lee | 1 comment | 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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