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Will the Climate Change Bill Cost Just a Postage Stamp?

June 29, 2009, 10:12am

Shikha Dalmia

U.C. Berkeley: Trains are Not So Environmentally Friendly

June 29, 2009, 4:52am

Adrian Moore

The Real Climate Change Deniers

June 25, 2009, 11:39pm

Shikha Dalmia

New Mitsubishi Plug-In Hybrid Beats New York Transit on Green House Gas Emissions

June 22, 2009, 9:02pm

Samuel Staley

The new MIEV plug-in electrict car by Mitsubishi Motors will produce about half the green house gas emissions currently generated by New York mass transit.

Congress Is Hiding Cap-and-Trade Energy Price Increases

Central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy

June 10, 2009

Ronald Bailey

The central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy. If energy prices don't go up, the goal of getting energy producers, manufacturers, and consumers to shift away from carbon generating fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) toward low-carbon sources of energy (nuclear, solar, wind, conservation) will not be achieved.

Whatever else they are, the folks in Congress are not stupid when comes to protecting their electoral viability. They are painfully aware of the fact that, while Americans express support for regulations to reduce greenhouse gases, 77 percent in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll declared themselves either "very concerned" or "concerned" that "federal regulation of greenhouse gases could substantially raise the price of things you have to pay for."

President Obama's Energy Plans Have a History of Failure

Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter

May 20, 2009

Ronald Bailey

History teaches us that the government is not very good at getting the results it intends when it intervenes in complex markets subject to violent price fluctuations. And unfortunately for Obama’s Carteresque agenda, Washington also has a poor track record when it comes to alternative energy research and development.

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