Ezra Klein Archive: Energy
Something is better than nothing -- but how much better?
Cap-and-trade is dead. But it looks like a renewable energy standard of some sort has a chance of passage. As energy economists Robert Stavins and Dick Schmalensee observe, this is ridiculous: In addition to being "less effective and more costly"...
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| January 14, 2011; 2:08 PM ET |
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The incumbent's advantage
In theory, I'm the perfect customer for the Nissan Leaf. I don't drive frequently. I don't need a car with much space. I never need to go farther than 100 miles at a time. But the Nissan Leaf wouldn't...
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| January 5, 2011; 11:01 AM ET |
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America's innovation gap, cont'd
Joshua Freed, director of Third Way's clean-energy program, e-mails to say that however bad innovation may be in the private sector as a whole, it's even worse in the energy sector: In the U.S., the private sector barely invests in...
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| October 6, 2010; 3:24 PM ET |
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Why we need an energy bill (in one graph)
And much of that R&D money, of course, goes to researching new ways to pull fossil fuels out of the ground. It's not all going to renewables. Source....
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| September 9, 2010; 3:04 PM ET |
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Charts and Graphs, Energy
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Why did Barack Obama do health care first?
Joe Romm says that “future generations are likely to view Obama’s choice of health care over energy and climate legislation as a blunder of historic proportions,” which is certainly possible. But like Matthew Yglesias, I don't think it was...
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| September 8, 2010; 2:08 PM ET |
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Energy, Health Reform
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Not again
Another oil disaster. And this one may be the worst yet. The Onion reports: In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation's history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port...
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| August 17, 2010; 3:05 PM ET |
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Climate Change, Energy
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