Category: National Policy Analysis
Waxman-Markey Backers: Stubborn as a Mule or Greedy as a Pig?
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 ...
U.S. Falling Behind China, Russia in Scramble for Strategic Natural Resources
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 ...
Renewable Energy: Truth and Consequences, by Dana Joel Gattuso
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 ...
Drill, Baby, Drill!
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Obama Administration Wrong to Cut Off Aid to Honduras
The Senate recently confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it needn’t have bothered. The Obama Administration apparently believes Supreme Courts can be ignored. Following the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office, ...
Does President Obama Have a Mandate For His Pledge to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions?
Barack Obama doesn't have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn't even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters. President Obama has repeatedly reiterated his support for an aggressive effort to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases ...
Stimulating Obama’s Green Agenda, by Dana Joel Gattuso
As the House and Senate hash out their differences in the stimulus package and President Obama further bemoans Republicans' "usual political games," he should note that his critics extend far beyond the GOP. Democrats, Keynesian economists, and even the editorial ...
Pensions in Peril: Are State Officials Risking Public Employee Retirement Benefits by Playing Global Warming Politics? by Steven J. Milloy, MHS, JD, LLM and Thomas Borelli, Ph.D.
I. Executive Summary Global warming has emerged as an important issue for investors, including state and local pension funds. Although global warming regulation appears likely to cause significant adverse impacts to the broad economy and stock market, a substantial minority ...
The Pickens Plan: Questions Unanswered, by Reece A. Epstein and David A. Ridenour
Introduction On July 7, 2008, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens introduced the “Pickens Plan,” an ambitious proposal to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil by one-third over the next ten years.1 The cornerstone of the Pickens Plan is replacing the ...
