Lynne Kiesling Check out this interesting Wired article with some electric company executives on carbon policy. It indicates that there is not uniform agreement among utility CEOs regarding appropriate carbon policy, its timeline, its breadth, and its costs and benefits. There is an oblique reference to AEP’s participation in the Chicago Climate Exchange, but no …
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Lynne Kiesling On Friday Saudi Arabia signaled its desire to control world oil prices through OPEC’s decision to reduce production by 1.2 million barrels per day. Lots of observers have noticed that 5 years ago OPEC’s unstated trigger/target price was $30/barrel, but now it seems that they are targeting a price of $60-70/barrel. Clearly, political …
Lynne Kiesling Since I still have not managed to get trackbacks to work on my MT installation, a separate post to thank the Adam Smith Institute and Trust But Verify for linking to my post on Floyd Landis mobilizing the cycling community for a wisdom-of-crowds analysis of the validity of his doping charge.
Lynne Kiesling As KP readers know, I am a cyclist and commented on the innumerate media debacle surrounding the Floyd Landis drug test here and here in July. Between the histrionics of the media, the history of bad behavior on the part of at least one testing lab, and the sheer ignorance of science and …
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Lynne Kiesling What are you doing at 10:10 AM EDT today? I’ll be prepping for a presentation I have to give this morning while I listen to the relaunch of my long-beloved WOXY. My recent paean to WOXY gave some indication of its importance and distinctiveness (or even, dare I say, uniqueness). Now it’s back. …
Lynne Kiesling I am sitting alone in my living room catching up on the day while I await the arrival of the KP Spouse so we can dine. I am indulging in a favorite alone pleasure: Virgin Radio UK on the spiffy music server (it’s too pop-y for the KP Spouse). Franz Ferdinand’s “Do You …
Lynne Kiesling Edmund Phelps has won this year’s Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Can’t argue with that, very important macro work that revealed the complexity of the interaction between inflation and unemployment. Tyler’s of course got the summary, and his take mirrors mine: But Phelps is not an economist who has influenced …
Lynne Kiesling This David Weigel article from the November issue of Reason made me very glad that I don’t live in Pennsylvania anymore (not that Illinois politics offers me any attractive choices either). The not-so-secret twist of Pennsylvania’s Senate race is that both candidates are trying to reshape their parties’ coalitions by tacking hard to …
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Lynne Kiesling In a recent Reason article, Shikha Dalmia writes an open letter to Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He’s now co-chair of a committee for the passage of Proposition 87 in California, which would create an oil extraction tax. Shikha strikes a lot of the same notes that I did in …
Lynne Kiesling Early last week I was attending the annual North American meetings of the US Association of Energy Economics. Some of the plenary speakers and papers presented focused on the need for technological innovation, particularly in technologies that will reduce the use of fossil fuels for transportation. Some people argued for the political process …
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