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By John Droz, Jr. -- June 20, 2016 No CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more insightful articles in this issue are:
Position of Poland’s National Institute of Public on Industrial Wind
Wind Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism
Despite Huge Investments, Renewable Energy Isn’t Winning
Turbine Bat Killings Continue Unabated
Multiple Mortality Events in Bats: a Global Review
Denmark Cancels All Coastal Wind Projects
Wind Turbines Threaten Space Research
Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Cuts Could Impoverish the World
Peer-Reviewed Study: Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions
1500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
Global Warming Alarmists—You’re Doing it Wrong
Rebutting Climate Alarmism with Simple Facts
Greed Energy Economics:
Wind Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism
Despite Huge Investments, Renewable Energy Isn’t Winning
US Senate Finance Committee Energy Hearing Testimony
The revealing numbers on solar employment in the USA
DOE Withdraws $40 Million from VA Offshore Wind Project
Germany Moves to Slow its Out-of-Control Energiewende
Wind Energy PILOT Programs are a Shell Game
Renewable Energy Health Matters:
VT Gov vetoes wind energy bill designed to provide health protections
Position of Poland’s National Institute of Public on industrial wind
Poland Adopts 10x Setback Rule for Wind Turbines
7 Short Videos to Clear Up Myths about Air Pollution
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Turbine Bat Killings Continue Unabated
Multiple mortality events in bats: a global review
Open for Comments: NOAA’s Draft of Ocean Noise Rules
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Wind Turbines Threaten Space Research
Denmark Cancels All Coastal Wind Projects
Study: Empirically-constrained climate sensitivity and the social cost of carbon
Study: Solar PV is a net energy loser
Continue Reading‘Bradley: Gas, Oil Interests Invite Intervention’ (1996 book review revisited)
By John Jennrich -- May 24, 2016 2 CommentsTwenty years ago, Rob Bradley, then president and now CEO of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), published a two-volume, two-thousand-page history of hydrocarbon regulation, legislation, economics, and politics from the mid-1800s to the mid-1980s. Titled Oil, Gas & Government: The U.S. Experience, Bradley’s treatise puts many of today’s energy issues in historical context.
On April 1, 1996, I wrote about the book in the newsletter I founded and edited, Natural Gas Week. I started my column, dubbed Perspective, by quoting philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Today, 20 years later, I would urge current legislators and regulators to consider the main takeaways of Bradley’s book before casting another vote or initialing another regulatory memo.
In his book, Bradley said that political motivations for government intervention are “narrow and self-interested, not necessarily in the common good and not necessarily representative of the citizenry.”…
Continue ReadingOn the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (1991 thoughts for today)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 2, 2016 No Comments“Expanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be throwing good money after bad. Instead of remaining a valuable asset mired in the political swamp, the SPR can be turned into an entrepreneurial asset. The reserve can be privatized by selling off either the entire operation or its individual parts.” – RLB (1991)
Good analysis on empirical matters, even from long ago (a quarter-century in this case) must stand the test of time.
It is regular fare at MasterResource to document the false claims of energy Malthusians (neo-Malthusians) from the 1970s until the present (now in their fifth decade!). And from time to time, MasterResource produces analyses from the past by free-market scholars for their relevancy and accuracy for current energy debates.
The example below, from 1991, is a quarter-century old. It concerns the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), a forgotten, obsolete oil stockpile that could disappear tomorrow and not be noticed by the market.…
Continue Reading“Oil Prices and the Business Cycle” (Interview with Robert L. Bradley Jr.)
By Robert Murphy -- April 25, 2016 2 Comments“Falling commodity prices in general are a good thing in a free market because, as economist Ludwig von Mises emphasized, the sole end of production is consumption. Consumption first, production second. Also the US is a net importer of both oil and natural gas, which means we consume more than we produce. So provincially speaking, the US gains more than it loses from well-to-pump or well-to-burner-tip price drops.”
Business consultant Carlos Lara and I produce a monthly financial publication, the Lara-Murphy Report, which highlights the Austrian School of economics in both academia and the financial markets. The January 2016 issue interviewed Rob Bradley of Houston, Texas, who was trained in Austrian-school economics and is a longtime historian of oil markets. This interview is reproduced below.
Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a 501(c)3 educational foundation with offices in Houston, Texas, and Washington, D.C.…
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