Lynne Kiesling Tongue in cheek, Tim Haab claims some credit for helping to bring about the shift in consumer behavior documented in a recently-released Cambridge Energy Research Associates study on gasoline. Punch line: America’s “love affair with the automobile” is being transformed — but not broken up — by forces that are redrawing the global …
Lynne Kiesling Good news: I am in Golden, Colorado, where I’ve been attending a GridWise Architecture Council meeting, so I am not stuck in the snowstorm beating down on Chicago. Bad news: I am in Golden, Colorado, and who knows if I’ll get home late this afternoon as scheduled? UPDATE: called AA, my flight was …
Lynne Kiesling As I’ve mentioned here before, I update the blogroll with a lag; I tend to read a lot of things through my RSS aggregator, and then put them here so I can access them without opening Bloglines. Two new links here, but sites I read regularly, are Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View and The …
Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler has summary post at Volokh Conspiracy that provides a lot of useful links to articles and analyses of yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Massachusetts vs. EPA. This Washington Post article gives an overview of the case and the arguments: Twelve states, led by Massachusetts and joined by the District of …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s Chicago Tribune has a commentary from Michael Peevey, Chairman of the California Public Utilities Commission. Based on his experience in California since 2000, he cautions the Illinois legislature against continuing the retail rate freeze that has been in place for a decade, during a period of rising fuel costs. To placate suspicious …
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In April the Illinois legislature passed legislation (and in June Governor Blagojevich signed it) requiring electric utilities to consider and evaluate the use of dynamic pricing to enable customer demand response. This legislation also directed the Illinois Commerce Commission to use benefit-cost analysis to evaluate whether such pricing and metering would lead to net benefits. …
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Lynne Kiesling While I hate to disagree with my esteemed colleague’s assessment of David Cay Johnston’s electricity restructuring article from the New York Times, I do disagree. Yes, it’s better than the first one, but the first one was a confused muddle of too many angles on a very complicated set of issues. This one …
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Lynne Kiesling My previous post on government spending on the London Olympics reminded me that Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations has a passage in which he argues for public spending on “public diversions” as a protection against the perils of faction. In particular, Smith was worried about the potentially corrosive effects on general public morality …
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Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Pearce at Samizdata has a dandy little post on the London Olympics and some words of wisdom from Milton Friedman. I was also struck (but not surprised) earlier this week by the estimates that cost overruns for the 2012 Olympics would be substantial, to the tune of around 50 percent at £5 …
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Lynne Kiesling Glenn Reynolds is hosting a digital camera carnival, with further entries today or Friday. In August I replaced my 6-year-old Nikon CoolPix (2MP, with a nifty rotating lens for self-portraits) because it has huge refresh and latency problems. Not a big deal for holiday snaps (grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no …
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