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Taking a Week Off with Your Kind Permission (back August 21st)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 15, 2017

MasterResource is in its ninth year.

The first post was December 26, 2008. We have published 2,265 posts and have others in the queue. Google just about any energy policy term/issue and ‘MasterResource’ and something interesting should pop up.

This is the last period of summer for a lot of folks and families with school just ahead. Your founder and editor needs a little break.

I’ll be in the Texas Hill Country for a bit.

Thank you for your readership!

We will resume on Monday August 21st.

 

 

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RFF Goes NRDC (“Social Cost of Carbon” Study Ahead)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 11, 2017

“On the climate issue, RFF has become the intellectual arm of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), just as RFF board member David Hawkins (of NRDC) desires.”

Resources for the Future (RFF) was once a much more scholarly think tank than it is today. It did not assume but evaluated and debated energy economics and related environmental issues.

On climate change, in particular, RFF has gone into the tank of alarmism–and is now a full-fledged foe of the free-market-oriented energy policies underway in the Trump Administration. In fact, RFF has become the intellectual arm of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), just as RFF board member David Hawkins (of NRDC) desires.

Sad, sad. From its glorious beginning in the 1950s and 1960s–publishing treatises and shorter studies on resource availability–RFF went Malthusian in the 1970s, a story recounted by the late mineral economist Richard Gordon and myself elsewhere.…

When Obama and Gore Went Oily (politicians like to deceive)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 8, 2017

“I have made it clear in this campaign that I am not calling for any tax increase on gasoline, on oil, on natural gas, or anything else. I am calling for tax cuts to stimulate the production of new sources of domestic energy and new technologies to improve efficiency.”

– Al Gore (2000)

“As long as I’m President, we’re going to keep on encouraging oil development and infrastructure, and we’re going to do it in a way that protects the health and safety of the American people. We don’t have to choose between one or the other, we can do both.”

– Barack Obama (2012)

For a very brief moment early in his first term, President Obama played the pro-oil card for some political mileage. Gasoline prices were on the rise, and Obama wanted to be all-things-to-all-people. …

Electric Vehicles: “A New Technology”?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 7, 2017

“Secret Back of Anti-Trust Law” (on the origins of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 3, 2017

“Alligator Shoes” in California (James Hansen is right on cap-and-trade)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 2, 2017

A Free Market Mission Statement (draft principles)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 1, 2017

Milton Friedman on Mineral Resource Theory (remembering a giant of social thought)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 31, 2017

FERC’s ‘Workable Competition’ Standard: A 1992 Note for Today

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 19, 2017

‘Greenhouse Policy without Regrets’ (Adler’s 2000 analysis still rings true today)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 26, 2017