The good news is that no amount of subsidies can disguise the fact ethanol is the wrong fuel at the wrong time. There may be good biofuels; corn-based ethanol is not one of them. Some clean fuels and technologies are worthy of taxpayer funding, but not the one that raises food prices and has no proven environmental advantage.
Year: 2008
Advice from Canada: An Energy Strategy for America
The USA has two daunting problems, the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression and President-Elect Obama’s energy policies, which will severely deepen the economic crisis.
What Will Obama Do On The Environment?
An Obama presidency looks to plow ahead on mistaken cap-and-trade programs just as other nations look set to abandon such plans.
Crichton – A Man For Our Time
In a time when the confluence of science, policy, and politics is making a Gulf hurricane look calm, Crichton was a uniquely qualified commentator whom we desperately needed.
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
An Inconvenient Education
“The worst thing you could do in the educational system is not have a balanced approach. That’s our job as educators: to make our kids thinkers.”
‘Blue Gold’ Worth $65B Annually
Less than 1% of the world’s water exists in the form of accessible fresh water. Of that, Canada has 20% of the total supply.
Gaddafi ‘to hand out oil money’
“The money that we put in the education budget, I say let the Libyans take it,” Col Gaddafi said in a 100-minute televised speech to the General People’s Congress, Libya’s equivalent of a parliament.
“Put it in your pockets and teach your kids as you wish, you take responsibility.”
Profiling Tenants and Landlords for More Efficient Rental Markets
What do eBay and renting a house have in common?
Standardized testing fails to make the grade
In related news, the Frontier Centre For Public Policy released a report by Rodney Clifton, professor of Sociology of Education with the University of Manitoba, which states that teachers’ unions are first and foremost acting in the interest of their members, and not students.
Stop The War On Poor Families
But radical greens want to reduce access to the fuels that produce 93% of our energy. They want to increase energy costs. They call this “energy conservation”. I call it “economic enslavement” and worse.
Efficient Rental Markets
Conventional economics anticipates that because landlords supply rental housing voluntarily, they will react to government-stipulated standards and compliance by either exiting the market or raising prices.
Arctic Sea Ice
The state of the Arctic sea ice is the topic of voluminous media reports about the effects of climate change but isn’t always well represented.
Unions Should Not Play Politics
While labour groups are correct to point out that management should not tell employees how to vote, they should recognize that they themselves are very partisan and should not be using members fees to support political causes.