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The Old Days

On the Theory of Interventionism

“One promising avenue for thinking about some of these issues is provided by Robert L. Bradley Jr., who, building on Sandy [Ikeda]’s work, offers his own typology of interventionist dynamics in a working paper, “Typology of Interventionist Dynamics” and the version in Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie, edited by Jack High. I cannot do his framework justice in my short comment, and I urge the interested reader to review Bradley’s work on this topic in its entirety. That said, his typology offers some examples of key categories for considering different types of regulatory interventions….”

Decades ago I found myself swamped with examples of government intervention into the oil and gas market as I came to the concluding chapters of what would be later published as Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S.…

An Exchange on Climate Alarmism/Forced Energy Transformation

LinkedIn is the premier business-related social media site, and they allow respectful discourse on the climate topic in my case. I have been very active at LinkedIn this year and have shared previous exchanges such as this one at MasterResource.

Here is another example. It began with a LinkedIn post from Favian Le Gay Brerton: “When the Oil and Gas industry talks about planting trees, producing hydrogen, and deploying CCS…. Moral Hazard.” He links to “The Era of the Great Carbon Fraud Is Upon Us” in the Australian newspaper, The Canberra Times. The article begins:

Instead of rushing to end fossil fuels, there is going to be a gold rush for carbon offsets, dirty hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS), all designed not to stop climate change, but to actually drive up the consumption of coal, oil and gas.

‘There is No Climate Emergency’ (1,107 signatories and counting)

Offshore Wind: Ecologists Tip-Toe into the Negatives

“Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story” (revisiting a book gone sour)

Classical Liberalism and Electricity: Ten Questions for Lynne Kiesling

Classical Liberalism and Electricity: An (Unfinished) Exchange with Lynne Kiesling

Dessler to Debate ‘Climate Flat Earther’ Koonin: Why?

ExxonMobil Joins Left’s Climate/Energy Agenda (H.R. 5376)