Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Waxman-Markey Backers: Stubborn as a Mule or Greedy as a Pig?

National Policy Analysis #580 /
Humorist Jack Handy once offered this witty advice:  “If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone.”  House Democrats have figuratively dropped the cap-and-trade bill into molten lava, but apparently ...
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U.S. Falling Behind China, Russia in Scramble for Strategic Natural Resources

National Policy Analysis #581 /
By rushing to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources, which are unaffordable and unavailable on a commercial scale, the Obama administration is playing Russian roulette with America’s future.   At stake is a shift in the global balance of power ...
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Renewable Energy: Truth and Consequences, by Dana Joel Gattuso

Renewable Energy: Truth and Consequences, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #582 /
As the U.S. Senate takes up climate change legislation, following the House’s narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill to curb, regulate, and tax fossil fuel production, renewable energy will take center stage while abundant and affordable oil ...
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Drill, Baby, Drill!

Drill, Baby, Drill!

National Policy Analysis #583 /
Miguel Cervantes created one of the most memorable characters of literature with Don Quixote, a delusional old man who jousted with windmills he thought were giants. Now the Obama Administration is quixotically raising its lances against another hypothetical menace: fossil ...
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Cap-and-Trade-Backing CEOs Should Learn from the Housing Bubble that the Pursuit of Liberal Policy Goals is Not a Sound Business Strategy, by Tom Borelli, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #585 /
With President Obama and his allies in Congress pushing for a cap-and-trade regulatory policy to reduce greenhouse gases, the future of American energy is at a crossroads — and the creation of an economic “Green Bubble” may be in the ...
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Do As I Say…

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On the way in to work this morning, I saw a vehicle with a bumper sticker "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" and various other green bumper stickers. Presumably, the point was that by buying local, you avoid extra greenhouse emissions from ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Media: Obama's a neologist; Bush was just dumb. Jokes to play on the President. Where does YOUR state rank? (H/T Coyote Blog.) Examiner: If Americans were getting an average of 20 miles to the gallon before Cash for Clunkers, they ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Is national health insurance Constitutional? No. Not convinced yet? Go here then. "It's almost as if the president has no experience..." Ya think? What planet is this guy on? Independence Institute: Medical coverage is like a game show. (90 sec ...
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What’s Happening Now

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The British government health care waiting list problem has been solved. "Racial overtones," says MSNBC, capping its entry into the Stupidest News Clip of the Decade Contest. British tax dollars at work: National Health Service gives Viagra to man with ...
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Cap-and-Trade is a Ball-and-Chain for Poor Americans, by Deneen Borelli

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  Cap-and-Trade is a Ball-and-Chain for Poor Americans by Deneen Borelli (bio) As Congress considered the Waxman-Markey "cap-and-trade" bill, President Obama rallied House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats at the White House.  In making a point, he gestured to Abraham ...
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