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Most of us don’t give a second thought to where our electricity comes from. The truth is that the power grid is the biggest engineering achievement of the 20th century – and one of the most indispensable machines on Earth. Reliable power provides the foundation for modern life. Yet EPA’s onerous regulations are threatening to undermine…
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requires renewable fuels to be blended into gasoline in a manner that increases the costs of foods and doesn’t necessarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Every year, EPA releases new and increasingly more untenable requirements for refiners. Like other government policies that attempt to pick winners and losers, the RFS creates…
A carbon tax is a policy with one definable goal: to raise the cost of traditional, reliable, affordable sources of energy. This includes the domestically produced gasoline, diesel, coal, and natural gas that fuel our cars and trucks, power our homes, and keep our economy going strong every day. While individual carbon tax proposals vary…
Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (CAFE), the official title of the U.S. fuel efficiency mandate, is one of the more outdated laws still on the books. CAFE was created back in the 1970s in response to the oil price shocks of that decade and a Malthusian fear about the world running out of oil. Whatever…
Congress enacted the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) in 1992 as a temporary measure for an “infant” industry. After propping up the wind industry for more than two decades, the PTC should be eliminated. Subsidized wind power increases electricity costs, harms taxpayers, and destabilizes the electric grid. It is most beneficial to wealthy wind developers…
What is Fossil Fuel Divestment? Energy is the lifeblood of modern society. Yet the fossil-fuel divestment movement is trying to halt our use of energy, and the products of modern life as well. These activists seek to pressure individuals and institutional investors to “divest” of stocks, bonds, and other investments in natural gas, oil, and coal companies. This morally bankrupt movement…
