Lynne Kiesling For those of you interested in intelligent legal analysis of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Massachusetts vs. EPA case, see Jonathan Adler’s post and the links he provides at Volokh. See also this thread of his earlier comments on the decision, and this extensive Google News search of articles on the decision. …
Lynne Kiesling So the KP Spouse and I had OK Go/Snow Patrol tickets for last night’s show at the Aragon in Chicago. In a colossal spate of bad timing, I got on a writing roll at about 4:00, and although I’ve not been having writer’s block, I’ve been having enough trouble working on a coherent …
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Lynne Kiesling Back when the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed, many analysts (including myself) argued that in addition to ethanol’s dubious claim to be more “environmentally friendly” than fossil fuels, subsidizing and otherwise favoring the production of ethanol would distort agricultural commodity markets. (If you just read that sentence and thought to yourself …
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Lynne Kiesling OK, this is one the better April Fool’s Day techie pranks I’ve seen in a while: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re on the subject, I was fishing around about soccer and found the EPL Talk blog, where there’s a neat post about musicians who are mad about soccer. A disproportionate share of those listed are Manchester City fans (as am I), including: Johnny Marr (Manchester City). The former guitarist of The Smiths …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t share Mike’s interest in basketball, so the NCAA tournament frenzy doesn’t do a whole lot for me. However, he and I both love soccer, and I’ve commented on the upcoming Beckham infestation of SoCal here and here. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article that discusses the MLS growth strategy to …
Lynne Kiesling Sorry for the radio silence; all of the things I’d like to write right now take more mental bandwidth than I can spare. I have literally been mentally composing a post on something for more than four months, but I haven’t had the mental space to think it through enough. Time for the …
Lynne Kiesling The following is a post I wrote in March 2004 about the regular, annual, seasonal rise in gasoline prices that always occurs at this time of year. I am reposting it here because it generally still applies, and I am inserting some updated comments in bold below. Being systematic, here are the primary …
Lynne Kiesling I am traveling this week, may have some things to say later in the week, but the next couple of days are hectic. In the meantime, I commend WSJ’s Energy Roundup to your attention, particularly their commentary on oil price volatility in this period of financial market turbulence.
Lynne Kiesling On Wednesday the North Carolina Utilities Commission approved one of two new power plants for construction by Duke Energy. Duke Energy Corp. may build only one 800-megawatt coal-fired generator at its aging facility in western North Carolina, not the two the utility has sought for nearly two years, the state Utilities Commission ruled …
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