All Posts Tagged With: "natural gas"
We’re Running Out of Oil?
The rise in gasoline prices in the United States has become a political issue. Each side panders to its own constituency with the most extreme arguments and factoids, leaving precious little in the middle ground of common sense. Take, for example, the March op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Paul Roberts, “Say Bye-Bye to [...]
1Sep2004 | John Jennrich | 2 comments | ContinuedDid Deregulation Kill California?
Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute. Skyrocketing wholesale power prices in California and the daily threat of brownouts and blackouts have cast a pall over deregulation. “Liberals,” led by California Governor Gray Davis, blame a restructuring law passed in 1996 for the crisis, arguing that it left the state [...]
1Jun2001 | Jerry Taylor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Growing Abundance of Fossil Fuels
Only two decades ago nearly all academics, businessmen, oilmen, and policymakers agreed that the age of energy scarcity was upon us and that the depletion of fossil fuels was imminent. While some observers still cling to that view today, the intellectual tide has turned against doom and gloom on the energy front. Nearly all resource [...]
1Nov1999 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedNuclear Power: Our Best Option
Mr. Oliver is a retired engineer living in Carson City, Nevada. Dr. Hospers, this month’s guest editor, is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California, and is the author of numerous books such as Understanding the Arts, Human Conduct, and Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. He was the first Libertarian Party candidate for [...]
1Jan1995 | Mike Oliver | 1 comment | Continued-
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