CO2 Enrichment is Winning!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 4, 2025

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Toward a Free Market Electricity Policy

By Robert Bradley Jr. --

Milton Friedman once said (1982: xxvii):

“There is an enormous inertia–a tyranny of the status quo–in private and particularly governmental arrangements. Only a crisis-actual or perceived-produces real change. When the crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.”

I remembered this quotation when Michael Giberson, a classical liberal caught in an interventionist web, stated:

Bradley: I answered your question about what a free market in electricity is. I’m still waiting for yours….

Giberson: I must have missed it. In your comments referencing your econlib posts on Texas you list some laws to be repealed to help get the industry headed more to a free market, but that’s a discussion of means rather than ends.…

HEATED/Atkin: Retrenchment, Burnout, Questioning

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 2, 2025

“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”

The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:

In 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….

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