Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor
Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Tayloris an American environmentalist activist and policy analyst...
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Renewable power mandates merely accentuate the inefficiency and cost premiums attached to so-called renewable power sources. If renewable power saved consumers money, created jobs, or carried any of the other economic benefits so frequently claimed by environmental activists, then government would not have to pass a law to force power companies to purchase it or consumers to buy it.
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It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year. I haven't looked at all of the ideas yet, but it's got to be right up there.
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Price gouging -- like spinach -- may be unappealing at first bite but it's good for everyone in the long run,
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If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, no subsidy will provide it. Those subsidies have failed to produce economic energy in the past, and there is little reason to expect that they will do so in the future.
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As far as the new subsidies for coal, wind, solar, nuclear and ethanol are concerned, if those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, then no subsidy will provide it.
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To the casual observer, one of the most striking things about President Bush's State of the Union address was his wholesale adaptation of the Democratic Party's rhetoric regarding energy. Veterans on all sides of the energy debate in Washington cannot fail to detect a strong whiff of political cynicism in the air.
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There are things teachers implement that aren't reflected in the improvement plans or in scores, ... There are things they are doing right every day.
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... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them...
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Unless this software is removed I will file a complaint with the FBI.
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What I am asking, I guess, is do you intend to work on it?