Agriculture
Price Controls are a Threat to People and the Planet
The better approach to control inflation is to reduce government spending and increase energy abundance.
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Economics
We All Pay the Price for Protectionism
Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux write in The Wall Street Journal about the price of protectionism. “Protectionism and industrial policy misallocate resources and reduce economic efficiency. When…
Transportation
High-Speed Rail—Courtesy of the Private Sector
"FECI intends to complete construction of the new Brightline project before the 2028 Olympics come to California. If it does, the firm will have offered yet another demonstration of how the private sector can succeed where the public sector fails. "
Energy
Why Californians Have Some of the Highest Power Bills in the U.S.
"In Borrego Springs, a desert town of 3,000, temperatures often top 110 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and air conditioners run nonstop. The town’s primary utility, San Diego Gas & Electric, has raised electric rates 82% in the past 10 years as it poured money into wildfire prevention and expanding and greening the grid."
Economics
Tariffs Raise Costs for Consumers and Slow Clean Energy Deployment
By reducing competition and keeping interest rates high, tariffs raise costs for consumers and deter the adoption of clean technologies.
Energy
Looming Bank Regulations Could Raise Your Energy Bill
While the intentions of B3E to strengthen and provide greater transparency to the global banking system are good, publicly-owned gas systems are concerned that the implementation of these banking regulations will be unduly onerous.
Conservation
How the Florida Wildlife Corridor Can Lessen the Impacts of Climate Change
The Florida Wildlife Corridor has shown tremendous potential to protect wildlife and the lives and property of the state’s residents.
Transportation
What’s Going on with Electric Vehicles?
Both the left and the right should be troubled by the economic cost, inequity, and environmental futility of EV subsidies.
Domestic
Interventionism, not capitalism, has caused our economic problems
"With all these government intrusions into the market come special favors and privileges, anti-competitive practices, protections, and subsidies that benefit some at the expense of others due to the interaction of government officials and politicians on the one hand and those in the private sector wanting to escape from competition through interventionist 'shelters' that guarantee them 'safe spaces' from the normal competitive forces of a real free enterprise system."
Energy
Rising Energy Demand is Not the Enemy. It’s the Opportunity
Lamenting the “obscene” energy demands artificial intelligence (AI) will command, a recent New Yorker article asks, “How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new…