“The Environmental Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits”...
[Editor note: This review was completed before the BP oil spill. To the extent that cost cutting was responsible for the Deepwater Horizon rig blowup and the uncontrolled oil spill, it was a monumental...
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‘Sustainability’: Some Free Market Reflections
A few months ago, I participated in a symposium entitled, “A Sustainable Energy State — How Remote Is the Possibility?” I prepared some talking points for the event and, heeding the injunction to...
View ArticleA Free Market Energy Vision (Part I: Worldview)
[Editor note: This is a revision of a previous post at MasterResource last year. Part II highlights a federal free-market energy bill created for discussion by the Institute for Energy Research. Part...
View ArticleOn Sustainable Energy (Part I)
The market order encompasses the concept of sustainability, which has been defined (Brundtland Report) as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future...
View ArticleOn Sustainable Energy (Part II)
Minerals cannot be synthetically reproduced in human time frames. But in the world of human action, neither crude oil, nor natural gas, nor coal exists in one, total, known form to start a depletion...
View Article‘Outside the Green Box’ (new primer unmasks ‘sustainable development’ fallacies)
“Energy consumption is not a villain. Nations that consume the most energy per person discharge the lowest level of air and water pollutants per person. Low-cost energy provides economic growth and...
View ArticleStagnating U.S. Wind (government addiction creates bubble symptoms)
“AWEA’s CEO Tom Kiernan bellyached last week that his people were exhausted by the ‘boom-bust’ behavior sparked each time the industry faced possible withdrawal of the PTC. He showed no remorse that...
View Article‘Sustainability’ Accounting: Subjectivism Compounded (political numbers...
” … the limited assurance of these public accountant’s sustainability letters provides, in certain respects, even less assurance than detailed agreed-upon procedure letters…. [T]he limited assurance...
View ArticleSustainability: Ideology versus Reality (Part I: Biofuels and Solar)
“United Nations conference organizers could have invited free market-oriented experts to offer thought-provoking, evidence-based analyses and critiques of UN precepts that are under fierce attack...
View ArticleSustainability: Ideology versus Reality (Part II: Wind Turbines)
Editor Note: This post is part of the three-part series with Part I yesterday on Biofuels and Solar and Part III tomorrow on The Big Picture. “Environmentalists are focused on banning plastic straws!...
View ArticleSustainability: Ideology versus Reality (Part III: The Big Picture)
Editor Note: This post completes a three-part series with Part I on Biofuels and Solar and Part II on Wind Turbines. “The world cannot afford to let delusion, dishonesty, ideology, or deliberate...
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