Stirling Burnett: Energy Loserville: U.S. DOE Picks in an Artificial Industry
“When government undertakes tasks for which it is ill equipped it squanders the authority necessary for carrying out its core responsibilities. Pervasive rent-seeking, bad for our economy and worse for...
View ArticleSixteen House GOP Freshmen Forget Principles in Support of Wind Subsidies
Eighteen freshmen Members of the House of Representatives sent a letter last week to House Republican leaders urging them to “take up an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy as...
View ArticleGHEI: Crop cronyism
Trillion-dollar farm bill is the latest example of what’s wrong with our economy Combine a Midwestern drought with pointless ethanol mandates, and the supplies of corn inevitably dwindle, driving...
View ArticleForeign energy firms pressured ministers to keep wind farm subsidies high
Ministers were “bounced” into retaining large subsidies for controversial on-shore wind farms by foreign-based energy companies who threatened to pull jobs and cash out of Britain....
View ArticleIndustry groups sell profit-making, not planet-saving, at GOP convention
The American Petroleum Institute is inescapable here, its name attached to briefings and concerts while its campaign logo adorns free sunglasses and sunscreen. But clean energy is not invisible to...
View ArticleDuke Energy CEO Picks Obama Over Romney on Energy
Gosh, a rent-seeking subsidy farmer prefers the Obama Administration over having to actually produce anything and compete in the open market. Go figure… President Barack Obama has been given an...
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