Inflated Numbers; Erroneous Conclusions
- 03/07/13
- AEA
- Studies
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REPORT: Big Wind's Bogus Jobs Numbers
- 03/07/13
- Benjamin Cole
- Studies
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In the Pipeline: 3/6/13
- 03/06/13
- AEA
- Blog
Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
The wind crew is bitterly clinging to its tax credits. They probably don’t have religion or guns. Politico (3/5/13) reports: “Two months after Congress rescued it, the wind industry’s crucial tax credit is back on the countdown to extinction. The fiscal cliff deal revived the wind-production tax credit on New Year’s Day just hours after it legally expired. Industry leaders say the extension saved thousands of jobs and will support the installation of...Continue Reading...
Everybody Agrees that CAFE Standards Are Inefficient
- 03/06/13
- Robert P. Murphy
- CAFE
Often in the policy debates on government regulations, you will have free-market people decrying inefficient impediments to business, while the other side will tout the (alleged) benefits to the environment or whatever the social goal happens to be. Yet a new MIT study —from a group that is very sympathetic to carbon regulatory policies—documents how inefficient vehicle fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards are. Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses...
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In the Pipeline: 3/5/13
- 03/05/13
- AEA
- Blog
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In the Pipeline: 3/4/13
- 03/04/13
- AEA
- Blog
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In the Pipeline: 3/1/13
- 03/01/13
- AEA
- Blog
This is going to be fun. We’ll see you in Houston on the 9th.
At every turn, the story behind wind energy gets more depressing. It’s like a kid who starts out in Mom and Dad’s basement after Harvard; it’s cute for a few months, and then you realize they may never leave. Green Tech Media (2/27/13) reports: “‘Capacity factor measures the power output from a generator as a percentage of its maximum capability. With most forms of generation, you would operate at whatever...Continue Reading...
Boxer-Sanders Carbon “Fee” Relies on Huge Bait-and-Switch
- 02/28/13
- AEA
- Emissions Standards
A recent story in EnergyGuardian (sub. req'd) centered on Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) support for the carbon “fee” bill introduced by his colleagues Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Fortunately, the newly-released NERA study gives us a quantitative estimate of how much their scheme would hurt the U.S. economy. The whole episode fulfills the warnings that many of us have been making during the carbon tax debate. Specifically, advocates of a carbon tax rely on a...
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New NERA Study Shows Economic Dangers of a Carbon Tax
- 02/28/13
- AEA
- Emissions Standards
A new study by NERA Economic Consulting, prepared for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), documents the economic dangers of a federal carbon tax. The study is very conservative in its assumptions (as I’ll explain below), giving the benefit of the doubt to the proponents of a carbon tax. Even so, there study reaches two conclusions: Either the US government sets a carbon tax low enough so that its economic impacts are simply bad, but not awful, in which case there are few...
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In the Pipeline: 2/27/13
- 02/27/13
- AEA
- Blog
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