Let's face it. Everybody loves cheap energy. Almost all human activities require energy consumption and, if something is so basic, it seems pretty obv...
As an energy source, wind power looks just about perfect: it creates no greenhouse gases, requires pulling nothing out of the earth, and relies on an inexhaustible resource. But for all its genuine merit, it shouldn't get government subsidies any more than oil or gas.
With his conservative credentials, Ohio Governor John Kasich might be the right trailblazer pointing the way towards tax reform, a Nixon-going-to-China grand bargain that trades a fossil energy tax boost for an income tax cut.
While some progress was made in the latest round of United Nations' climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa, there was little progress on either carbon pricing or financing for action against climate change.
Republicans decry the first serious attempt to curtail greenhouse gas emissions as an "energy tax." That's not the beef some environmental groups have...
The Congressional Budget Office has examined the costs -- and rebates -- being engineered into the Congressional climate solution. The result: The ave...
Newt Gingrich's American Solutions Group has put out a TV ad calling for action against the National Energy Tax, which they claim will lose Americans ...