Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor
Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Tayloris an American environmentalist activist and policy analyst...
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Renewable power mandates merely accentuate the inefficiency and cost premiums attached to so-called renewable power sources. If renewable power saved consumers money, created jobs, or carried any of the other economic benefits so frequently claimed by environmental activists, then government would not have to pass a law to force power companies to purchase it or consumers to buy it.
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Price gouging -- like spinach -- may be unappealing at first bite but it's good for everyone in the long run,
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If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, no subsidy will provide it. Those subsidies have failed to produce economic energy in the past, and there is little reason to expect that they will do so in the future.
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If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary.
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We are going to put the fields in the best condition we can,
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I heard Mr. Rees exactly what he said. I think that is neither here nor there right now. The same judge that accepted Commissioner Rees order can also accept ours. My side has never been heard. Your all's side was heard, not mine,
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This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.
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This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don't have anything better to do.
reflection weather events
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.
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... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them...
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I don't think consumers benefit from corporate welfare, and that's all that these proposals add up to. With energy prices as high as they are, we don't need to provide any incentives.
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The goal of reducing Middle East imports is a meaningless goal.
It's overwhelming because there are so many things to do.