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Dumb or Ill-informed About Energy Problems
by Walter Williams
(June 4, 2008)
What assumptions do congressmen make about the American people? Do they assume that we're dumb or ill-informed about the energy problems we are experiencing?
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The Real Culprit of Our Gasoline Woes: Environmentalists
by Brian Simpson
(June 3, 2008)
Environmentalists have done everything they can to make oil and gasoline more expensive and our standard of living lower.
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Investigate Bad Congress, Not Big Oil: How The American Government's Anti-Capitalist Policies Increase Gas Prices
by Alex Epstein
(May 28, 2008)
Americans deserve to know the story--in all its gory detail--of what their government has done and is doing to cause high prices at the pump, and to make gasoline--indeed, all energy--more scarce and more expensive in the future.
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Tyranny Update: The California Energy Commission
by Walter Williams
(January 17, 2008)
Before you get too enthused over governmental energy-saving efforts, you might ponder what's down the road.
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Who Is Gouging Whom?
by David Holcberg
(May 26, 2007)
The real gouger driving up gasoline prices is not the private sector, it is our government.
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What to Do About Rising Gas Prices
by Alex Epstein
(May 24, 2007)
With gasoline prices at their highest point in recent years, the knee-jerk response of many is to call for the government to "do something" to force prices lower. But no matter what the price of gasoline is, such calls are wrong. All market fluctuations in the price of gasoline, up or down, are a good thing--and none of the government's business.
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What to Do About High Gasoline Prices
by Alex Epstein
(March 26, 2007)
There is no moral or economic justification for any politician or consumer to declare market prices "too high," and to use the government to coerce lower prices.
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Energy and Terrorism: Capitalism To The Rescue
by Ralph R. Reiland
(October 17, 2006)
The good news out of Munich is that BMW has come up with something that could do a better job than the CIA in defunding al-Qaida.
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On Boycotting Citgo: Re-Living the Carter Era -- with a Twist
by Gus Van Horn
(October 7, 2006)
While I strongly sympathize with the desire to boycott Citgo, I doubt that even a successful boycott would have much of a long-term effect on the Chavez regime.
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What to Do About Gasoline Prices
by Alex Epstein
(October 1, 2006)
What should the government do about gasoline prices? Get its hands out of the market--and keep them off.
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