[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Oct 28 2009
Filed under: rent-seeking, Block, climate change, Coal, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has done it again*, by proposing in a speech on October 1 in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. shelve cap-and-trade legislative approaches to managing greenhouse gas emissions in favor of direct carbon taxes that are rebated to consumers . Tillerson`s full speech is here ; the press...
The coal- and utility-funded "free-market think tank" Institute of Energy Research has a just released another study that tells us the obvious about the regressive consequences of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the benefits likely to flow to its corporate supporters, while masking...
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on Fri, Oct 2 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, Coal, statism, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon, IER, political capitalism
The following is an email message that I sent to Scott Horton , host of Antiwar Radio , regarding his September 18 interview with Bob Murphy . The exchange regarding Bob`s thoughts on the cap and trade bill monstrosity appears at 24:14 to 29:47. (Minor edits and link added.) Scott, I listened with interest...
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on Fri, Oct 2 2009
Filed under: Coal, Bob Murphy, cap and trade, climate change, IER, Scott Horton