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Why Lieberman-Warner Is Bad for U.S. Economy
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June 9, 2008
What is Driving the High Oil Prices?
By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., and Owen Graham
As oil and gasoline prices surpass $134 per barrel and $4 per gallon, respectively, it is clear that significant change is underway in global energy markets, portending major challenges for the global economy and energy security.
June 9, 2008
The Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008 Will Only Increase Gas Prices and Energy Costs
By Ben Lieberman
Unfortunately for consumers, the energy bill on the fast track right now is the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008 (S. 3044), introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), which repeats the mistakes of the past by adding constraints that will discourage domestic energy supplies.
June 2, 2008
Nuclear Power Needed to Minimize Lieberman-Warner's Economic Impact
by Jack Spencer
Although many supporters of Lieberman–Warner are quick to call attention to conclusions that show the least negative economic impact, they often fail to mention that the results depend on a massive expansion of nuclear power.
June 2, 2008
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act: A Solution Worse Than the Problem
By Ben Lieberman
America's Climate Security Act of 2007 requires significant emissions reductions before the technologies capable of achieving them affordably are available. The science points away from a need to act precipitously and impose such a dramatic slowing of the economy in such a tight timeframe, and Lieberman-Warner's compliance costs are likely to be far out of proportion to its benefits.
May 30, 2008
Five Myths About the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Legislation
By Ben Lieberman
Like global warming itself, the bill has been the subject of considerable hype and little hard-nosed analysis. For this reason, there are several myths about it that need to be dispelled.
May 22, 2008
Effect of the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Legislation on States
By William W. Beach, Ben Lieberman, David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D., and Nicolas D. Loris
The Senate's leading climate-change bill, while aiming to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide in the air, actually poses "extraordinary perils" for Americans and the economy from which no state is spared.
May 12, 2008
The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation
By William W. Beach, David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D., Ben Lieberman, and Nicolas D. Loris
The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill is, in many respects, an unprecedented proposal. Its limits on CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions would impose significant costs on virtually the entire American economy, and complicated tariff rules, dependent on evaluating the GHG restrictions of all trading partners, add another unknowable dimension to the costs, fueling the overall uncertainty.
May 2, 2008
Ethanol and Other Biofuels: A Global Warming Solution Worse Than the Problem
By Ben Lieberman
There are risks to global warming policy as well as risks to global warming, and although the former could be costlier than the latter, they are often neglected in climate change debate.
April 18, 2008
Nuclear Power Critical to Meeting President's Greenhouse Gas Objectives
By Jack Spencer
While wind, solar, and clean-coal technologies may eventually affordably contribute to the nation's production of emissions-free power, the best way to achieve President Bush's vision today is through nuclear power.
April 18, 2008
Both Bad and Good in Bush's Climate Change Speech
By Ben Lieberman
President Bush suggested that he will support federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be a reversal after seven years of opposition to mandatory controls on energy in the name of fighting climate change. Indeed, some worried that the speech would announce a final-year capitulation on the issue.
February 6, 2008
The EU's Climate Change Package: Not a Model to Be Copied
By Sally McNamara and Ben Lieberman
European Union elites have long used popular concern about the environment as a way to promote the undemocratic European project, absent any cost-benefit analysis or meaningful measures of success.
May 26, 2008
$3.80 Gasoline Too Low? Washington Thinks So
By Ben Lieberman
Millions of vacationers will pay record prices for gasoline as they hit the roads this Memorial Day weekend, and only those who have been in the sun too long would like to see prices climb even higher. Yet several members of Congress seem determined to guarantee that they will.
May 19, 2008
McCain's Global Warming Plan Threatens Economy
By Robert Bluey
It's not that conservatives don't care about the environment -- they do. But in the case of Sen. John McCain's proposal, the benefits-lowering Earth's temperature by no more than the Kyoto projection of 0.007 degrees Celsius-would come at a great cost to America's economy.
May 19, 2008
A Carbon Diet Needs a Healthy Serving of Nuclear Energy
By Jack Spencer and Nicolas Loris
If the government is fixated on the CO2 Reduction Diet, at least it has an effective means to an end in nuclear energy. If government doesn't stand in its way, nuclear energy can help America and the world meet its clean, safe, and affordable energy demands.
May 15, 2008
Climate Control: A Costly Proposal
By Rebecca Hagelin
Think energy is expensive now? Wait until Congress plugs in the Climate Security Act of 2007.
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