The Environment

Wal-Mart has come under fire, even now, for selling gasoline at prices that some state legislators say are too low. William Anderson debunks the charge.

Conservation is not an exercise in saving us from ourselves. It is an attempt by the political classes to criminalize choices that we would make in a free market.

As more Americans become aware that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, the people who make their income from scaring us are increasing their efforts.

Paul Krugman is at it again, this time calling for price caps in California as a way of solving the energy problem. How can an economist think such things?

The teachings of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises offer the answer to those who say we should dismantle civilization to meet the supposed needs of nature. A very powerful speech by George Reisman.

The state of California has experienced a meltdown in its electric power system. For months, the system has repeatedly run at or near the overload point, necessitating brownouts and even rolling blackouts. Incredibly, the fiasco has been blamed on deregulation and the free market.

The Governor's supposed solution to the energy fiasco promotes the fiction that government solves problems that private businesses create.

So the regulations have begun. Two towns, so far, have passed laws banning the use of cellular phones while driving. In Illinois, the giant cellular telephone provider Verizon said it would lobby for a state law prohibiting anything but "hands-free" cellular phone use by drivers.

You've heard that government policies can cause unanticipated bad effects? This view is confirmed many times over when you consider the current forest-fire fiasco. Government is the cause of the fires that raged out of control across the West this summer, just as surely as if the Forest Service had spread the fuel and lit the match.

Some recent court decisions strengthen private property rights. But they do not go far enough.