Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor
Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Tayloris an American environmentalist activist and policy analyst...
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What's high on the radar for environmental organizations has virtually nothing to do with what people think. If you dig deeper, and ask what environmental problems are you concerned about, water from the tap and the local dump tend to outpace global warming. People, when they think about environmental quality, think about it in their own town.
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To the casual observer, one of the most striking things about President Bush's State of the Union address was his wholesale adaptation of the Democratic Party's rhetoric regarding energy. Veterans on all sides of the energy debate in Washington cannot fail to detect a strong whiff of political cynicism in the air.
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You guys are doing some things, a lot of things right,
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We seem to have economic amnesia. Decisions about what sort of technologies to invest in, what fuels to produce and in what quantity are best made by consumers and business, and not by politicians.
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The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.
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If they want a poster boy for the Energy Hog, they can put President Bush's mug up there for jetting around the country for useless photo ops to try to bring his poll numbers back up,
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If they were promising economically, you wouldn't need government help. The fact is that they haven't been able to generate much electricity, and so the people most inclined to make money out of this are probably going to put their money elsewhere.
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One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.
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There are things teachers implement that aren't reflected in the improvement plans or in scores, ... There are things they are doing right every day.
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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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It had the effect that any economist would have told you. To believe the laws of economic gravity have changed over time is wrong.
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It isn't where natural gas prices will be this winter or even next winter, but where the prices will be over the lifetime of the project.
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It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year. I haven't looked at all of the ideas yet, but it's got to be right up there.