Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now Fears for the loss of basic human commodities fail to account for human ingenuity and innovation... |
| Energy-Related Tax Preferences and Job Creation Each wind-energy-related job costs taxpayers between nine and 39 times as much as a job created by the oil and gas sector... |
| Does Private Insurance Reduce Environmental Accidents? The price structure for market-based insurance gives fuel tank owners incentives to invest in equipment that reduces the chance of accidental fuel tank leaks... |
| Pipelines Are Safest for Transportation of Oil and Gas Pipelines are by far the safest and most responsible means for transporting resources like oil, petroleum and natural gas... |
| End the Department of Defense's Green Energy Foolishness Using the military as a tool for boosting aggregate demand for unconventional energy sources is foolish and threatens to undermine the military's ability to do its job effectively... |
| The Use and Abuse of Science in Policymaking Farmers are using genetically engineered crop varieties to produce higher yields with lower inputs and reduced environmental impact... |
| Obama's Green Jobs Fraud Exposed The Obama administration awarded $9 billion to the Department of Energy for the creation of green jobs; that funding created only 910 direct jobs between 2009 and 2011... |
| California's Electric Vehicle Fetish California's "Zero-Emission Vehicle" mandate requires at least 15.4 percent of all cars sold be either fully electric, a plug-in hybrid or powered by a hydrogen fuel cell by 2025... |
| The Great Streetcar Conspiracy Streetcars cost roughly twice as much to operate, per vehicle mile, as buses, and also cost far more to build and maintain... |
| Banking on Green Energy Bank of America is projecting that it will spend up to $50 billion over the next 10 years on a new initiative promoting renewable-energy platforms such as wind and solar... |
