[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Oct 28 2009
Filed under: rent-seeking, Block, climate change, Coal, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon
The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer has quit the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple`s...
Anti-enviro gadfly Steven Milloy has a new blog post up that rightly skewers the green mandates that are providing a taxpayer-funded stream of business and profits to GE. Notes Milloy: GE announced today that utility giant American Electric Power (AEP) will purchase 110,000 smart meters from GE. And...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Oct 1 2009
Filed under: rent-seeking, Coal, power, obama, Steven Milloy, GE, problem-solving, Immelt
A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response (with a few typo and editorial changes): "Do...
Lord knows I`ve got better things to do, but I can`t resist. Rob Bradley has written extensively on energy regulation from a libertarian viewpoint and spent a number of years as an adviser to Ken Lay inside Enron - apparently seeing up-close (while conscientiously fighting a losing battle to steer Enron...