AUTHOR ARCHIVES: Robert Murphy

Breaking down EPA’s Light-Duty GHG Emission Standards Blog

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Earlier this week, IER submitted its comment on EPA’s proposed light-duty truck greenhouse gas emissions standards. As we will see, even relying on the EPA’s own analysis shows just how absurd federal intervention into energy markets has become. The debate would…

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NPR Adds More Excuses for Solyndra Blog Solar

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Much to the chagrin of supporters of government intervention into the energy markets, the Solyndra scandal won’t go away. Because it’s such a big story, the defenders of the Obama Administration can’t simply ignore it. Instead they have been offering…

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T. Boone Pickens on Natural Gas Prices: Pet Technologies More Important Than Co Blog Natural Gas

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Recently T. Boone Pickens appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the virtual endorsement of the “Pickens Plan” that President Obama had given earlier that week. Amidst the repetition of sensible goals such as “developing our own resources” (that the…

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Obama Wants a Level Playing Field? Not in Energy Sector Blog Solar

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President Obama’s State of the Union address has been analyzed by countless pundits from a variety of angles. In this post I will focus on the extreme contrast between Obama’s rhetoric of a level playing field and giving everybody a…

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Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson Makes Sense On Keystone XL Blog

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A recent column by Robert Samuelson on the Obama Administration’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline is so good that it’s worth walking through its key points.
First, Samuelson points out that even on its own terms, the decision achieves…

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