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Energy fact of the week: Oil and gas growth thump renewables
One of the oldest misleading statistical tricks is to cite percentage growth from a low base. For example, if the units of something produced go from 1 to 2, that’s 100 percent growth! But if you go...
View ArticleHow to think seriously about the planet: The case for an environmental...
Event Summary The Left has long-claimed environmental policy as part of its progressive platform, and many Americans assume this to be the case. In the first panel of an AEI event on Tuesday and in his...
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Energy fact of the week: The U.S. has the best CO2 reduction record in the world
The latest bulletin on greenhouse gas emissions from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) notes that while total global emissions rose by one full gigaton in 2011, emissions by the United...
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Is the Republican Party too extreme?
Event Summary The Republican Party has become increasingly unwilling to compromise on legislative questions, leading in many cases to gridlock and dysfunction. Last summer’s debt limit debacle and the...
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Energy fact of the week: Peak ethanol?
A few weeks ago, we noted here the sharp decline in biodiesel production during a one-year hiatus in the blending tax credit—more evidence of how biofuel production is dependent on government subsidies...
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Energy fact of the week: The rapid decline of coal
Recently released figures from the Department of Energy reveal this stunner: coal-fired electricity is at its lowest point since January 1973, which, as our pal Robert Bryce reported recently at...
View ArticleAUDIO: Is the Republican Party too extreme?
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View ArticleRobert Bork’s revenge?
The distinguished jurist Robert Bork has died at the age of 85. Roger Kimball recalls him here, noting with understatement that the left’s scorched-earth opposition to his Supreme Court nomination was...
View Article‘Environmental Justice,’ EPA Style
The elitist environmental movement has always had a problem with its limited appeal to low-income minorities, few of whom identify with the upscale, Volvo-driving profile of environmental...
View ArticleReagan’s Farewell Address at 25
It was sobering to have a student come up to me after class recently and ask, “So, when was Reagan elected president again?” As firsthand memory of Reagan recedes further into the rearview mirror and a...
View ArticleRemembering Walter Berns
Walter Berns had good reason to be standoffish when I arrived at the American Enterprise Institute as the Weyerhaeuser Scholar in 2002. He knew that I came from Claremont, and had been a student of his...
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