Myth of Affordable Energy

Milo.

Posted to SciTech on Tue Oct 23, 2012 at 08:34:56 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Maybe what we need in the White House is someone who is a real politician, a negotiator and dealmaker in the mould of a Clinton or an LBJ. Instead, we have the choice between a manager and a law professor. I'm not optimistic that either of them will be able to do what needs to be done.

That was a quote from what I found to be an interesting interview (of economist Ed Dolan)about energy policy. Another provactive one:

Subsidies for renewables are just plain wrong, even if you look at them from a hard-core environmentalist point of view. With a subsidy, on the one hand, you say, "produce more green energy" and other the other hand, you turn around and tell the consumer, "waste more green energy." We don't want to waste energy from wind or solar any more than we want to waste oil and gas. We shouldn't forget that even the greenest renewables can have significant environmental impacts.

The prescriptions given by Dolan are actually (IMHO) very level-headed.