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By jdroz The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by... Read More

By dnorman “There is no evidence that government scientists and engineers are better at forecasting the future and know how the future will play out better than the scientists and engineers in private companies. Technocrats ignore the fact that private companies also hire... Read More

By rmckitrick “The claim that Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act of 2009 would create 50,000 jobs was a guess without any basis in formal analysis. The Province has since admitted both that the vast majority of these jobs will be temporary, and that the... Read More

By cknappenberger “No matter whose carbon dioxide emissions estimate is used, the climate impact of the oil transported by the pipeline is too small to measure or carry any physical significance. In deciding the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, it is important not to let... Read More

By rpeltier “The ‘bait’ for legislators is each gets to ‘bring home the bacon’ in the form of rebate checks to voters and huge new tax revenues for the federal government…. The ‘switch’ … is to propose baby steps for the first... Read More

By rbradley “From all signs, the wind-energy field has reached that all-important turning point.” - C. Flavin, Wind Power: A Turning Point (Worldwatch Institute: July 1981), p. 47. Christopher Flavin, long associated with the Washington, DC-based Worldwatch Institute... Read More

By jdelong “The tax will not be implemented in the politically aseptic world of academic modelers, but in the real world of intense  political pressures. Its assumed purity will not survive the onslaught [as demonstrated by] … Sanders-Boxer [where] the carbon tax is... Read More

By pgrossman [Ed. note: Dr. Grossman is author of the just-released U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure, an important and sobering tome with much insight about today's debate.] The U.S. government has claimed over the years one and one reason only for government... Read More

By rbradley “We were motivated by the public and political controversy fostered by alarming predictions of impending catastrophic anthropogenic global warming [at] NASA …. Many of us felt these alarming and premature predictions … would eventually damage... Read More

By dsimmons “The energy and economic welfare of the United States and Mexico are intertwined by our shared geography, geology, and peoples. The Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement will help to tie our countries together and grow our economies.” - Daniel Simmons,... Read More