Abracadabra Energy Policy: Are the Generating Alternatives to Coal-Fired...
Just over a month ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey energy tax.[1] Much of the debate focused on how much the bill will cost Americans. For example, the Congressional...
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CBO KO: Waxman-Markey hurts the economy more than “doing nothing”
The CBO has issued a new report [.pdf] that summarizes the economic effects of greenhouse-gas legislation, relying on previously published analyses. The report shows just how weak the case for the...
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CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap and Trade
Only in Washington D.C. would a program that costs hundreds of billions of dollars and perhaps over one trillion dollars, be called “comparatively modest.” But that’s what Congressional Budget Office...
View ArticleRep. Barton and Rep. Inslee discuss the temperature impact of the...
Rep. Barton and Rep. Inslee discuss the effect the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill will have on global temperature. Rep. Barton argues that according to temperature modeling he has seen, the bill will...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation Weighs Impact of Carbon Tax
In this forum, we have been discussing the serious problems with a carbon tax for years. For example, here is my study showing the weakness in the standard academic case for a carbon tax, and here is...
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