Comments on: Dear U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Why Attempt to Resuscitate a Brain Dead Climate Bill? http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/ A free-market energy blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Van Schuyver http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4211 Mark Van Schuyver Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:56:24 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=6965#comment-4211 Nice post. Thanks Robert. As you know we are big fans of your work. Nice post. Thanks Robert. As you know we are big fans of your work.

]]> By: Charles http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4210 Charles Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:53:36 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=6965#comment-4210 Good stuff Rob to highlight the unsettling new trend in business today, which is to adopt the rent-seeking role to the cost of tax-payers. All this does is entrench government distortion of markets by allowing large corporations to support government generated market positions by some of these businesses. I suspect that in the future voters and the public in general is going to have to be a lot better informed about these connivances, as I think they will become more complex and sophisticated in the future and therefore much harder to spot. Easier to nip in the bud now before it ever gets a life of its own. Good stuff Rob to highlight the unsettling new trend in business today, which is to adopt the rent-seeking role to the cost of tax-payers. All this does is entrench government distortion of markets by allowing large corporations to support government generated market positions by some of these businesses.

I suspect that in the future voters and the public in general is going to have to be a lot better informed about these connivances, as I think they will become more complex and sophisticated in the future and therefore much harder to spot.

Easier to nip in the bud now before it ever gets a life of its own.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 Andrew Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:24 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=6965#comment-4209 Danni-The problem with your argument is that the climate bills are not efficiency bills, they are emissions reductions bills. Efficiency as so small an impact on emissions (YES even in aggregate) that it is laughable to suggest that they are "good for the environment" in any measurable sense (or bad for that matter). More over, since when has it ever been necessary for businesses to be <i>told</i> to do something which benefits them, much less families and individuals? Danni-The problem with your argument is that the climate bills are not efficiency bills, they are emissions reductions bills. Efficiency as so small an impact on emissions (YES even in aggregate) that it is laughable to suggest that they are “good for the environment” in any measurable sense (or bad for that matter). More over, since when has it ever been necessary for businesses to be told to do something which benefits them, much less families and individuals?

]]> By: Robert Bradley Jr. http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4208 Robert Bradley Jr. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:57:51 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=6965#comment-4208 Consumer-driven energy efficiency is one thing--government-incited or government-mandated conservationism is quite another. Why not let the market decide? Consumer-driven energy efficiency is one thing–government-incited or government-mandated conservationism is quite another.

Why not let the market decide?

]]> By: Danni http://www.masterresource.org/2010/01/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-why-attempt-to-resuscitate-a-brain-dead-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4206 Danni Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:32:42 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=6965#comment-4206 Because efficiency is good for business, good for the family budget, and good for the environment. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/uschamber?ref=ts Because efficiency is good for business, good for the family budget, and good for the environment. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/uschamber?ref=ts

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