Alternative Energy and Energy Economics

US Energy Policy

Energy Policy: Wisdom or Waste? By Roger McKinney (2007)

Government-Reformulated Gas: Bad in More Ways than One By Michael Heberling

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Runs into Gridlock (NYT) August 27, 2008

Corruption Charged in Subsidized Wind-Power Industry (NYT) August 18, 2008

Mandating Renewable Energy: It’s Not Easy Being Green By Michael Heberling (2006)

The Sustainable—and Young—Hydrocarbon Energy Age By Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (2001)

Ethanol-onomics

Ethanolics Anonymous, By Lawrence W. Reed (2001)

Ethanol versus the Poor By P. Gardner Goldsmith (2007)

Forbes Online energy page

Resources and Research

Institute for Energy Research (see especially link to global warming speech by Richard Lindzen and “Are we Running out of Oil” article)

Mercatus Center

Government regulations, subsidies and oil industry

Free enterprise in 19th Century/early 20th Century oil industry vs. regulation and subsidies of later 20th Century oil industry in America. Excerpt from great article by Barry Paulson of the University of Colorado on this page, with link to full article online. (1987 article, but valueable analysis and history . . . and way-cool affirmative case idea).

Strategic Significance of America’s Oil Shale Resource Department of Energy study on shale oil technology today (Adobe Acrobat pdf file). (Beware, govt. technology document from agency with history of getting things hopelessly mixed up.)

Independent Institute

Economist Dwight Lee considers ANWR Oil Exploration (Press release) (Full Article link)

The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization (TIR article)

The Independent Review, Fall 2004

The Independent Review, Fall 2001

Reason Magazine energy

Energy Independence: The Ever-Receding Mirage (July, 2004)

EconomicThinking.org

Technology page

Environment page

Energy research paper with definition of oil dependency

Recommended Reading

Energy: The Master Resource By Robert L. Bradley and Richard Fulmer