Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor
Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Tayloris an American environmentalist activist and policy analyst...
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This bill will allow politicians to tell voters they're, quote, doing something about high energy prices. And the bill also allows politicians to hand out subsidies and preferences and tax dollars to well-organized interest groups -- and that's what Congress likes to do best.
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It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.
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It's not the government's job to design automobiles. Also, there's a great deal of unrealistic expectation about what fuel-efficient cars can do. If the government really wants to secure reduction in oil consumption for cars, it should just leave gas prices alone. With enough time, consumers will reduce their consumption in response to higher costs.
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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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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 auto fleet turns over slowly, usually every 10 to 12 years. You're not going to see SUVs replaced by hybrids any time soon.
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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.
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It turned out very well and I'm very happy with the book and all the work she put into it.
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It takes a real big price increase to get a little bit of reduced consumption.
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It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.
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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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You guys are doing some things, a lot of things right,
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As far as the new subsidies for coal, wind, solar, nuclear and ethanol are concerned, if those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, then no subsidy will provide it.