All Posts Tagged With: "SUVs"
The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (www.cei.org), a Washington-based free-market advocacy organization. First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign. Then the [...]
1Jul2003 | Sam Kazman | 0 comments | ContinuedUncle Sam’s False Fuel Economy
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. A quarter century after the misguided policies of President Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress created an “energy crisis,” President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress risk wandering down the same foolish [...]
1Nov2001 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedDon’t Bash SUVs
The world is full of people who can’t mind their own business and who think they know what’s best for the rest of us. If only we’d be smart enough to put them in charge, they figure, the world would be a better, more rationally planned place. Things would run more smoothly and efficiently and nobody’s greed would be satisfied at anyone else’s expense. The world’s scarce resources would be husbanded for the benefit of all.
1Oct2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 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 | Continued-
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