Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Let Ethanol Subsidies Die An analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency found that current ethanol production techniques actually result in higher emissions of greenhouse gases than refining and burning ordinary gasoline, says Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine's science correspondent... |
| California's Destructive Green Jobs Lobby A century-long trend of advance in conventional "nonrenewable" energy -- from wood to oil to natural gas and nuclear -- has already wrought a roughly 60 percent drop in carbon emissions per watt, says George Gilder, a founding fellow of the Discovery Institute... |
| Free the Fight Against Malaria Failing to protect DDT, secure supplies and defend the right to use it will mean that the global community puts the sensibilities of anti-insecticide activists and the agendas of the Stockholm Convention Secretariat ahead of the lives of poor people in malarial countries, says Richard Nchabi Kamwi, the minister of Health and Social Services in Namibia... |
| Job-Killing Environmentalists The Environmental Protection Agency's plans for reducing carbon dioxide could cause the loss of over a million jobs and raise every family's energy costs by over $1,200, says Jon Basil Utley, associate publisher of the American Conservative... |
| Will Masses Embrace Electric Cars Despite High Prices? Only 0.6 percent of cars sold in the United States in 2020 will be fully electric, predicts auto researcher J.D. Power and Associates... |
| Calif. Rail Project Is High-Speed Pork High-speed trains connecting major cities are a perfect example of wasteful spending masquerading as a respectable social cause, says Robert J. Samuelson... |
| Obama's Electric-Car Cult Electric cars still cost too much to attract more than a handful of wealthy buyers -- and this will be true for at least another decade, say observers... |
| Will the West's "Water Woes" Lead to More Flows? The West's water policy is a minefield in which policymakers and politicians are inclined to step gingerly -- or not at all, says Gary Libecap, a fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center and the Hoover Institution... |
| The High Cost of Green Energy Programs in Massachusetts Green energy policies will cost Massachusetts ratepayers more than $9.8 billion over the next decade, according to a new study by the Beacon Hill Institute... |
| Volt Fraud at Government Motors Despite adding a small gasoline engine to help maintain the charge on the battery as it starts to run down, we're told GM's Chevy Volt is still an electric car, not a hybrid. But that's not true, say observers... |
