Lynne Kiesling Most people who like to observe human action and its inherent dynamism (in tension with some inherent stasism, too) seem to be fascinated by cities. I love cities ? their histories, their energy, their culture, their architecture (and yes, let?s admit it, their restaurants, and shopping). The various neighborhoods in east London are …
Lynne Kiesling Although I am only here for about 48 hours, I did want to try at least one of the many exciting restaurants in London. In fact, the March 2005 issue of Gourmet magazine proclaims London “the best place in the world to eat right now”, and gives a lot of suggestions to support …
Lynne Kiesling In our few hours of leisure time some of us got out to enjoy the lovely Warwickshire countryside, including a quick visit to Charlecote Park and Kenilworth Castle. We also grabbed a quick half-pint in the quaint (some would say twee) pub in the historic village of Kenilworth: That’s our host, Lincoln Allison, …
Lynne Kiesling Tom Lenard has a post on the PFF blog in response to my post the other day about S.498. Tom says One reason I like the Burr bill (and liked its predecessors that he introduced as a member of the House) is that it contains perhaps the only truly deregulatory measure – in …
Lynne Kiesling In London, in the wake of a Liberty Fund conference on modern British liberalism [small-l, the European type] and conservatism. Home soon. A couple of folks may have noticed that comments and trackback pings have not been working here; this problem is due to a recent spam attack that my host did not …
Lynne Kiesling Last week Senators Burr (NC), Landrieu (LA), and Lott (MS) introduced S.498, ?To provide for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in order to support competitive electricity markets, to ensure reliability of electric service, to modernize regulation and for other purposes.? The proposed bill is at best a tweak of the Federal Power …
Senate Bill S.498: Removing Barriers To Competition? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Looking for updates on oil prices, OPEC strategy, and other such global energy financial issues? I recommend The Capital Spectator, where James Picerno opines clearly and analytically about such things. Here in Chicago, it’s the sustained high world oil prices combined with it being March that drives up our gas prices. Why March, …
Lynne Kiesling Ken Malloy at the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets has written a rebuttal to Rebecca Smith’s Cranky Consumer column that I wrote about last week. Why don?t residential electric customers switch? Ms Smith?s story implies that it is variously stupid marketers, high electric prices, unwilling customers, or the policy of deregulation. …
Lynne Kiesling According to Larry Lessig in this article from March’s Wired issue, it’s state officials. In writing about municipal WiFi, Lessig argues that [t]he telcos’ argument isn’t much more subtle than that of the simpleton who began this column: Businesses shouldn’t have to compete against their governments. What the market can do, the government …
Who’s Stifling Competition To Keep Prices High In Telecom? Read More »
Ian Cook [NOTE: Our anti-spam software does not like something in Ian’s comment, so he graciously gave his consent to post this as a guest post — ed.] Unfortunately, I don’t know much about the institutions specifically within the electric power industry, so I imagine this will be of limited help. But, that’s never really …
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