I consider the level of dependence of the U.S. on imported petroleum to be a very large financial risk endangering the country’s future. There are certainly other import-related risks as well, but here I want […]
Tag: carbon tax
About That $72 Billion Subsidy
I am going to be pretty busy for the next few days, and probably won’t be able to put anything new up until at least mid-week. Until then, over the past few days there have […]
The API on Cap and Trade
Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute conducted a blogger’s conference call to talk about various energy issues that they are focused on. I used to regularly attend these calls, but things have been quite busy and […]
Tariffs in the Climate Bill
A number of people have written to ask why I haven’t commented on the climate bill. There are two reasons. First, the House and Senate versions are very different, so the final form may not […]
Mulva on Replacing Oil
My former CEO Jim Mulva spoke today at the National Summit in Detroit, and had some newsworthy comments. Bloomberg reported on his talk: Conoco Chief Says Replacing Oil May Take a Century June 16 (Bloomberg) […]
Book Review: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Jeff Rubin – the former chief economist at CIBC World Markets – has always struck me as someone who “gets it.” I have seen him do a number of interviews, both on television and in […]
Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Bill
I don’t normally post press releases that are e-mailed to me (I get 4 or 5 every day), but this one is important to me. (See my essay The Case for Higher Gas Taxes for […]
Does This Look Familiar?
Regular readers know that I am a proponent of a carbon tax with income tax offsets. See my essay The Case for Higher Gas Taxes for details. A bill proposing that has now been proposed: […]
A Simple Climate Tax Scheme
The following guest post is by Bob Findlay, a self-employed open source software engineer who lives on a small farm just outside Toronto.—————————-On 07 Apr 26 an Oil Drum blogger named Squalish (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2499) wrote a […]
Taxes versus Subsidies
The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, has just issued a report comparing the effectiveness of fossil-fuel taxes versus renewable energy subsidies for increasing the usage of renewable energy: Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and […]