My Favorite Books

Stained Glass
Witness
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
The Iliad
James
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Animal Farm
Doctrine of Endless Punishment
Marco Polo, If You Can
Who's on First
From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984
The Hunt for Red October
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss


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Links

Making Electricity More Expensive

Tuesday’s hearing by the Texas Senate Business and Commerce Committee helped shine some light on the challenges of Texas’ green energy efforts.
While we heard great things about the state’s energy efficiency program, we didn’t hear how much the program costs consumers–so i helped out with some testimony. Since 2002, Texas consumers have [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Category: Consumers, Energy | Comments are closed

Global Deceit

The fallout from Climategate continues to shake the foundations of the theory that global warming is manmade. My employer, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, recently held a debate on the issue at our 8th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature. I think the results show even more clearly that the global warming machine may [...]

February 15th, 2010 | Category: Energy, Environment, U.S. Politics | Comments are closed

National Review and the Contract

Why in the world would National Review say that, “Republicans ought to promote new energy technologies in order to reduce the risks of global warming?” I can’t think of a good reason.
Yet that is exactly what it does in an article by Ramesh Ponnuru, “Contractual Obligations,” that discusses the need for a new “Contract for [...]

February 5th, 2010 | Category: Economics, Energy, Environment, Media, U.S. Politics | Comments are closed

Subsidies Anyone?

According to the Cato Institute, federal subsidy programs topped the 2,000 mark for the first time last week. Almost half of those have been created in the last 20 years: the number of federal subsidy programs soared 21 percent during the 1990s and 40 percent during the 2000s.
As Chris Edwards, Cato’s director of tax [...]

January 31st, 2010 | Category: Energy, Environment, Taxes, Texas Politics, U.S. Politics | One comment

Our Expensive Energy Future

This is a glimpse of the future under the energy efficiency regime being pushed in Texas and across the U.S. The picture shows a new home in the SOL neighborhood, three miles east of downtown Austin. It is being built on the premise that energy efficiency is the cheapest option for “new” energy.

A new [...]

October 20th, 2009 | Category: Energy, The Left | Comments are closed

TX Legislature in Review: Electricity and Renewable Energy

Most of the electricity bills this session had one thing in common—they were going to make electricity more expensive for Texas consumers or taxpayers. Fortunately, most of them didn’t pass.
The major bill that did pass provided incentives, i.e. subsidies, for electricity generation plants equipped with carbon capture technology. But it may not wind up costing [...]

June 18th, 2009 | Category: Consumers, Energy, Texas Politics | Comments are closed

Texas New Energy Taxes

A recent study estimated that proposed federal legislation aimed at decreasing greenhouse gas emissions would increase Texans electricity bills by a minimum of $10 billion.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration announced new fuel standards that could cost American car buyers $19 billion a year when fully implemented.
Not content with these new energy taxes on Texas consumers, the [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Category: Consumers, Energy, Texas Politics | Comments are closed