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Amid the supplemental appropriations bill (warning, 144 page pdf), currently awaiting vote after a Conference Committee, is the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program (pages 52-58). Naming bills in deceptive and often cutesy terms has truly become an art form. The CARS Program merits being in the same zone as the ever-so appealing […]

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Anti-Science Syndrome (ASS) sufferer Hater of Liberal Economics (HOLE) Glenn Beck evidently envisions himself as the rightful successor of one of the greatest names in political theory and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States with his publication of Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government inspired by Thomas Paine. […]

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The best (blog and academic) work that I’ve seen on why we should work with gallons per mile (gpm), rather than miles per gallon (mpg), comes from Duke Professor Rick Larrick. He blogs at MPG Illusion and GPM Calculator. As we consider the Clunker of a Deal (otherwise known as Cash for Clunkers), it is […]

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The energy efficiency sections of HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, are, almost certainly, its strongest elements. The United States, for a wide-ranging set of reasons, has evolved into a far more energy inefficient society than sensible (rather than stove-piped and distorted) economics would suggest should be the case. The […]

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A positive sign of our changing time is that all four candidates (soon to be two) for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia have put into public serious statements about energy and environmental issues. We will put aside the “all of the above” and “drill here, drill now” fantasies of Republican Bob McDonnell to turn […]

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Chairman Ed Markey’s OPED, The race for clean-energy innovation, earns both cheers of agreement and moans of discord. Absolutely spot on is the beginning, highlighting the truth that we are facing a race for trillions of dollars in clean-energy investments. As President Obama says, “the nation that leads in 21st-century clean energy is the nation […]

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In the health care debate, progressives are calling for single payer and made it quite clear, in a united fashion, that a (good) public option is an absolute minimum requirement. They’ve put a public bottom line front and center. And they appear to be making progress on it. Where is that similar call when it […]

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Heading home today, something came in sight that led to a lane change, an unplanned turn, and a few miles of extra driving. Simply put, sadly, it isn’t every day that I see a solar powered car on the road (on Route 123, McLean, Virginia, just outside the CIA headquarters). Having no problem with the […]

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Plastic bags are a scourge on the globe. From the plastic ocean in the Pacific, to the stomachs of choked birds, to the fences of highways, the billions of annual bags are infrequently reused or recycled and often don’t even make it into the dump. DC faces increasing levels of pollution on the Anacostia River. […]

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