The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which has a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
Brookings: Economically, Wind & Solar are Worst Options
Bill Gates: “I Used to Take Electricity for Granted”. No more.
Levelized cost of energy: A limited metric
Why “Green Energy” is Economic Nonsense
Solar (and Wind): Green for the Air, Filthy for the Grid
Solar power compared to some conventional sources
Rooftop Solar Leases Scaring Buyers When Homeowners Sell
Greenpeace: “a threat to national economic security”
France Proposes Substituting Unreliables for Nuclear
New Study: The Economic Impact of the Illinois RPS
Green-collar crime ~ carbon markets and financial crime risks
Houston man allegedly sold more than $29 million in fake renewable credits
Senator Manchin: Don’t renew wind tax credit (PTC)…
Continue Reading“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Most Americans easily recall these eloquent words with which the Founding Fathers expressed the basis of their claim for independence from Great Britain in 1776.…
Continue ReadingPart I yesterday explained Adam Smith’s notion that general human betterment was the unintended result of each individual following his own self-interest in the market arena of voluntary and competitive exchange. Adam Smith considered such natural order far superior to attempts by government, by those in political power, to design and impose an order and coordination in the actions of the members of society.
Echoing his earlier warnings about the social engineer, that “man of system,” Smith stated:
… Continue ReadingBy pursuing his own interest [the individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good . . .
What is the specie of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his own situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him.