Category Archives: 1970s price controls

“Energy Facism” (Rothbard 1974 speaks to us today)

Clean Energy, Energy Conservation, ‘Planetary Destiny’: Richard Nixon 1972

Ayn Rand on Energy Disruption (1970s message to Bernie and Bloomberg)

Carter’s “Malaise Speech” of 1979 (remembering the crisis of interventionism)

The Craziest Regulatory Episode in US History: The 1970s Oil Reselling Boom

Nixon Price Controls and Exiting Paris: A Bad Analogy (enslaved vs. freed energy)

Ronald Reagan: Executive Order Providing for the Decontrol of Crude Oil and Refined Petroleum Products (January 1981 for January 2017)

President Reagan: Radio Address on Oil Decontrol (Precedent for Trump’s climate disengagement)

“The Energy Crisis of the 1970s: Looking Back, Looking Ahead” (Econ 101 needed at RFF seminar)

Jane Mayer on Energy Policy: Some Corrections