Taxes & Economy

The Price of Wind

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 13, 2010

The Wall Street Journal has a good article about how wind generation drives up electric rates in Massachusettes, and will continue to do so as alternative energy mandates are…

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Government Accountability

How Rendell Gets Shills

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 13, 2010

In each of their “budget updates” (see: this one or this one) the Department of Public Welfare ends with this line “For information on…

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Taxes & Economy

Bad Pennsylvania Policy Spreads to DC

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • May 12, 2010

In the past couple of weeks, debate in Washington has ramped up over implementing national alternative energy mandates. Senator Jeff Bingaman has included the standards in his American Clean…

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Government Accountability

Fact Checking Special Interests’ Attack on Natural Gas

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 11, 2010

Misinformation spewed continually at Common Cause’s press conference on natural gas campaign contributions (see CF News Release) held today at the Capital. Here are…

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Taxes & Economy

Re: What About Jobs of Other Colors?

  • May 11, 2010

Katrina’s post on Friday that highlighted Energy Ventures Analysis’s job destruction realism about Pennsylvania’s proposed alternative energy mandates is buttressed by similar research elsewhere, including …

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Health Care

Obama Concedes CF was Right About Slacker Mandate

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 11, 2010

I hate to toot my own horn (wink wink), but a few months ago, I wrote that a “slacker mandate” included in the federal health care bill would fail…

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