Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor
Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Tayloris an American environmentalist activist and policy analyst...
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If they want a poster boy for the Energy Hog, they can put President Bush's mug up there for jetting around the country for useless photo ops to try to bring his poll numbers back up,
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This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.
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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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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 isn't where natural gas prices will be this winter or even next winter, but where the prices will be over the lifetime of the project.
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It's possible, but that kind of reduction doesn't protect us from supply disruption. If we don't import oil from Iran, if they removed themselves from the market, it would increase crude prices regardless of where we're getting our oil.
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One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.
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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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A supply disruption in the Middle East would increase the price of crude everywhere in the world no matter where or how it is produced.
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It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.
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The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.
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We seem to have economic amnesia. Decisions about what sort of technologies to invest in, what fuels to produce and in what quantity are best made by consumers and business, and not by politicians.