Energy Articles Flashcards
Weisman…Money Flowing into New Ideas in energy
clean energy is the new focus area for venture capitalists as the cost of oil increases
renewable energy costs are therefore becoming more competitive
Bartlett and Steele-the Great Energy Scam
to qualify for tax credits, the makers of coal only have to carry about a process to slightly alter the coal, not actually make it any more efficient.
if the tax credits end, so will the industry.
the IRS never gets to investigate cause congress always stops it somehow
Bartlett and Steele - a magic way to make billions
synfuel producers pumped money into campaigns to perserve their tax break
it would slip through the crack cause there are bigger issues in the bill
Glaeser- the folly of fixing energy price hikes
politicans react to high oil prices as if the bill of rights gave americans the right to cheap fuel
learned that fixing prices below market level only produces shortages
using tax policy to lower prices is only slightly less foolish. it rewards people for using more fuel. higher prices force people to be more efficient
Elkin and Cook- the public life of economic incentives
basically the pros and cons to market incentives described in lecture by Rossell
Gelinas- A carbon tax would be cheaper
will still have a toll on the economy, but cap and trade has many more problems than a tax
europe has seen prices go up with cap and trade
politicans only like it because no one understands it whereas a tax would be a risk electorally
Sununu- Boulevard of broken dreams
lots of dreams have wasted money in the past because people are bad at predicitng the future
krugman-building a green economy
how fast should we move?
tax people who pollute, but moral issue arises
tax means you know how much it will cost, but you don’t know how much pollution there will be while the opposite is true for cap/trade
either way, we need to enact a market incentive scheme
act now!
Zarembo- Kyoto’s failure haunts new UN talks
the US wouldn’t sign the treaty.
more of a diplomatic success and environmental failure
any progress that was made under that time was because of the shut down of the soviet union, not the treaty
china and india exempt because developing
Lindzen- Climate of Fear
Don’t get money for reseach unless people are alarmed, so global warming has been trying to hype up to get money.
there is a reluctance to find out how climate actually behaves according to him.
disenting scientists are bullied and discredited
Lindzen- Global Warming Fears Overblown
we don’t know that it will turn into a catastrophe… that is the ONLY thing we can say
warmer climate could be beneficial
carbon caps will only lead to increased prices and corruption with trading
sea levels change normall due to many forces
Baram- An inconenient verdict for Al Gore
British court ruled errors in his movie
parents sued cause they didn’t want it showed in schools
9 errors listed
Ritter- Greenlands melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace
the warmer ocean, not air, is the problem. and that could be because of the el nino system, random weather, or maybe global warming but we don’t know
it may be a regular thing and it wil takes hundreds or thousands of years to know or see bigger effects
Hayes- Pulp Nonfiction
we are paying the paper industry to use fossil fuel which they never needed before but now use to qualify for a tax credit
it was part of a transportation bill passed by GW Bush
No one in congress expected this but they wont change it because the paper industry has so much clout in DC
