Author: David Ridenour

Increase Fuel Economy Without Killing Americans

The Relief Report /
Contents: Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? Gas Prices May Spike this Summer: Lack of Drilling and New Refineries Partly to Blame Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative ...

Cautionary Energy Tales

The Relief Report /
Contents: Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale CAFE Costs, and CAFE Kills Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a ...

Unocal Uses Regulatory Process for Profit; Stands to Make Billions

National Policy Analysis #359 /
Americans love a good scam. And nowhere more so than in the movies. That's why films like "Tokapi," "Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Thomas Crown Affair" are such huge favorites at video rental outlets. When a major oil company scams ...

Medicare: An Alphabet Soup of Programs Lacking Proper Nutrition For Patients

Most good cooks don't start with a recipe, just a goal. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was the chief cook for Medicare. His goal was to provide quality health care coverage to an aging U.S. population. Unfortunately, his best intentions ...

Split Up the Postal Service, Not Microsoft

Microsoft is the victim of a double standard. A federal court recently ordered the company to be split into two smaller companies. But there is a real monopoly that no one seems to want to do anything about. There's been ...

Internet Tax Could Doom Web’s Freebies

National Policy Analysis #278 /
Freebies that many Internet surfers now take for granted could be eliminated or scaled back if advocates of Internet sales taxes get their way. Over the past several years, some of the nation's governors and big-city mayors have been pushing ...

Government Mismanagement, Not Drought, Responsible for Water Shortages

National Policy Analysis #279 /
Only government bureaucrats could suggest that the best solution to a government screw up is more government. But that's precisely what is happening when it comes to droughts. Local water authorities recently testified before the National Drought Policy Commission that ...

Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Contaminated by Hypocrisy

When the federal government announced on September 22 that it was suing U.S. tobacco companies to recover funds the federal government spends each year on smoking-relating health costs, more than one person quizzically asked: But doesn't the government support tobacco ...

Is Summertime Smog an Increasing Threat to Public Health?

There's no need to sweat summertime smog. Despite the hype, air quality is better now than it has been in decades. By now, most Americans are acquainted with code red days, ozone action days, ozone awareness days, and other smog ...

New Technology Will Allow Us to Dodge the Hardest Punches of Hurricanes

National Policy Analysis #264 /
"Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it," Mark Twain once quipped. But now someone at least is doing something about some of its worst effects. A seven-year-old Virginia company called High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) ...

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