Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| The Myth of the Resource Curse Resource rich countries tend to have lower rates of economic growth, and rarely mature into diversified and stable economies... |
| The Paradox of Energy Efficiency Even though there have been technological breakthroughs in fuel and energy efficiency, energy consumption has remained about the same... |
| Is It Time to Stop Putting Food in Our Cars? By 2016, the United States will have diverted up to 43 percent of its cropland to be used for ethanol; this will divert crops for feeding people and livestock... |
| Energy Is Everywhere The poorest populations in the United States pay the highest percentage of their income on indirect energy (5 percent) while the rich only have to pay 1.3 percent of their income... |
| The Ethanol Election Delay The biofuel mandates are responsible for at least 192,000 premature deaths every year because of hunger... |
| Green Jobs Stimulus Program Wastes Cash A recent audit found that the green jobs program was training workers that already had jobs and didn't need green energy skills... |
| Political Energy: We All Lose More than $153 million has been spent on energy-related television ads by lobbyists and companies trying to influence policymakers and the general public that their particular source of energy is the best... |
| The Real Stimulus: Low-Cost Natural Gas The growth in shale gas will save the United States from spending $100 billion on imported liquefied natural gas... |
| California Gasoline Consumers Hurt by Few Suppliers, Outages Virtually all 14.6 billion gallons of gasoline sold in California last year were made by nine companies that own the state's refineries... |
| An Energy Policy for Long-Term Economic Growth U.S. oil consumption is expected to increase by a third over the next 20 years, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
