Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Carbon Emissions and the Drought Global warming alarmists are quick to blame this summer's drought on rising carbon emissions, in spite of the fact that U.S. emissions have fallen 1.7 percent in 2011 -- the lowest levels in 20 years... |
| The Case for Natural Gas Exports American firms could make up to $3 billion per year from exporting liquefied natural gas... |
| Subsidy-Powered Vehicles Consumers would rather buy a cheaper car and pay less in insurance, making electric cars uncompetitive and government subsidies a failure... |
| Wind Production Tax Credit Already Phasing Out The production tax credit for wind energy is set to expire at the end of the year, which provides the certainty that businesses need... |
| Policy by Panic Global accumulated cyclone energy is at its lowest level since 1970, despite the cries of those that claimed Hurricane Katrina was a shape of things to come as a result of global warming... |
| Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas Since 2005, 19 plants receiving the waste gas payments under a U.N. carbon credit system have profited from churning out more harmful coolant gas so they can be paid to destroy its waste byproduct... |
| Country's Economic Welfare Can't Take More Poor Energy Policy The Energy Information Administration forecasts that our energy budget in 2035 will continue to be dominated by oil, natural gas and coal, although coal's share will decline and natural gas' will increase... |
| Ethanol vs. the World The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently downgraded its 2012 corn forecast by 13 percent from last year's crop, to 10.8 billion bushels -- the shortest harvest since 2006... |
| Energy Regulations: Protecting Irrational Consumers from Themselves The Department of Energy estimates the global greenhouse-gas emissions benefits of clothes dryer standards at between $93 million and $1.49 billion -- less than half of the total claimed benefits of the regulation... |
| Food as Fuel America 's corn ethanol sector now consumes about as much grain as all of the country's livestock... |
