Search Results for: "Enron%2C wind power"
Relevance | DateTPPF: Fighting Back in Texas on Wind Power Subsidies
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 21, 2019 4 Comments“Across the state, Texans are fighting subsidies for big renewable energy corporations. It’s an uphill battle as negotiations of these special deals under [Texas] Tax Code Chapter 312 and 313 are hidden from public view. But numerous communities are winning.”
– Texas Public Policy Foundation, “Texans Are Winning,” February 18, 2019.
The Texas wind industry has been constructed on the backs of US taxpayers, state and local taxpayers, and captive electricity ratepayers. The ruse can be traced to 1999 when an Enron-driven electricity restructuring law provided a 2,000-MW renewable-energy quota for Texas (think Enron Wind Corp.). Texas governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry were instrumental in the crony crusade, unfortunately, a story told elsewhere.
The takeoff of this politically correct, economically incorrect power source is explained by concentrated benefits, diffused costs.…
Continue ReadingMasterResource Turns Five
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 26, 2013 6 CommentsOn December 26, 2008, the free-market energy blog MasterResource began. Some 1,440 posts (from 150 authors) later, we are nearing two million views.
The original idea of MasterResource was to bring a distinguished group of energy experts together to attract a wider audience. The thinking was that a movement website would provide the critical mass to be heard in an increasingly crowded blogosphere.
Here was the original concept as explained in our first blog five years ago today:
… Continue ReadingWe are just getting started here, but some of us veterans of the energy debate from a private property, free-market perspective have teamed together to offer our thoughts on late breaking energy items. When I read my newspapers each day, I have some thoughts that I wish I could share with folks from a historical, worldview perspective.