Rep. Wilson Jumps on Price Gouging Bandwagon

Congresswoman Heather Wilson has once again chosen to ignore basic economic principles in favor of trying to score cheap political points. The issue this time is “price gouging” legislation that she is sponsoring: HR 2335. While I can’t link to the bill text directly, you can read the bill for yourself by clicking here and [...]

Conservative Think Tank Head Threatened for Taking on Gore’s Energy Consumption

From the perspective of left-wing adherents to the religion of global warming, Al Gore’s energy usage is apparently beyond question. Drew Johnson of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research recently exposed Gore’s energy usage and felt the wrath of those for whom questioning the global warming orthodoxy or the merits of its adherents is beyond [...]

Ethanol is Not the Answer

At least ethanol is not the answer to our energy problems. It may indeed be the answer to the question, “What biofuel is used by politicians as a political ploy to satisfy environmentalists while they escape making politically difficult decisions?”
Ethanol actually makes gasoline costlier and dirtier. But, conveniently, the benefits of ethanol subsidies flow to [...]

Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

According to a new study by fellow State Policy Network think tank, Tennesse Center for Policy Research, “Al Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year.”
“Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the [...]

Bush and Richardson: Reading from the same script

Ethanol is all the rage nowadays. President Bush and Governor Richardson, both of whom are obsessed with finding “renewable” sources of energy will, if they stick to their ambitious plans,will more than likely rely on ethanol for a significant portion of that energy.
Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of the Cato Institute deconstruct the supposed [...]

Global Warming, on again, off again

While snow slowly melts here in New Mexico, back east there is a heat wave going on and people are talking about global warming. Of course, just like warm winters and large snowstorms are nothing new, neither is talk about global climate change. In fact, as Jeff Jacoby points out, there have been apocalyptic forecasts [...]

First they came for your trans-fats…

With Democrats in control of Congress, global warming is bound to become an even bigger issue in 2007. New Mexico, apparently, will be leading the way as Governor Richardson recently outlined his plan to strictly regulate industrial emissions of so-called “greenhouse gases.”
Given all the talk of limiting industrial and automotive emissions, I was surprised to [...]

Is the Film Industry Polluting?

Given the incredible number of tax breaks given to New Mexico’s film industry, one might be led to believe that the industry is completely benign and obviusly beneficial regardless of whether the policies that bring the industry here in the first place are economically sound. Unfortunately (for film backers at least), a recent UCLA study [...]

The Gasoline Price Conspiracy

Here is my LTE to ABQ Journal in response to yesterday’s LTE by Chuck MIttlestadt:
Chuck Mittlestadt’s letter to the editor of October 4 alerts us to the big oil—Bush administration “conspiracy” to drive down gasoline prices just before the election. After this “political ploy to influence your vote,” according to Mr. Mittlestadt, you should [...]

Gas Price Guru Says: Price Gouging Doesn’t Exist

A recent story about Trilby Lundberg, the nation’s guru of gasoline prices, is a must-read for politicians and those who think that high gas prices are the result of some kind of conspiracy. Ms. Lunberg publishes a twice-monthly newsletter that analyzes gas prices nationwide. While Ms. Lunberg, as far as I can tell, hasn’t got [...]

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