Sitemap - 2009 - Knowledge Problem
Pro-liberty Reading to Take You into 2010
Crandall & Winston on Financial Regulation
Thanks for the Kp Design Input
Sarewitz/thernstrom La Times Op-ed on Leaked Climate Research Documents
National Research Council Says Benefits from Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Decades Away
Is Our Morality Derived from Our Biology?
I Think I'd Rather Be Westinghoused
Electric Power Rate Reforms Needed for Smart Grid to Create Value
Cato Unbound: Hayek and the Common Law
Texas Retail Electric Rates Remain Higher Than Neighboring States
U.S Government Becoming Clean Energy Venture Capitalist
New Book -- Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story
Modern Manners Guy on Gift Etiquette
Somin and Lambert on the Responsible Use of the Precautionary Principle
Ercot Begins to Settle Accounts Based on Data Rather Than Guesses
Repugnance, Outrage, and Other Moral Excuses
The Benefits of the Proposed Tres Amigas Interconnection
Steve Landsburg's Questions to Oberlin Honors Students
Digging into the Resource Curse: Research into Oil Revenue and Brazilian Municipalities
More Tres Amigas Interconnection Details Revealed in FERC Filings
The Devil's Dictionary Meme Applied to Climate Politics and to Financial Markets
This American Life/planet Money and Market Dynamics
Bars Take Donations to Pay Smoking Fines
Beckham's Chances of Playing for England in the World Cup...
Reduced Air Emissions Due to Wind Power: More
Thankful for Lax Security at Turkey Point?
Easterly on the Civil War in Development Economics
Shale Gas As a Game Changer: A View from the Uk
Hamilton on Oil Prices and the Recession
Read Wilkinson on the Perils of Political Correctness
How to Build a Nuclear Power Plant Without Captive Ratepayers
Green Cloud Computing in Finland
Those Leaked Emails, and the Politicization of Climate Science
Is Florida Agency Price Gouging or Just Charging What the Market Will Bear?
Appliance Sales to Get ‘cash for Clunkers’ Boost? (2)
Two Views on Electric Utility Restructuring in Pennsylvania
Ed Glaeser on Why Some Cities Are More Entrepreneurial
Energy Information Devices Start to Go Mass Market
U.S. Biodiesel Continues to Need Taxpayer Support, or Else...
Britain's Digital Economy Bill is a Dud
Apparently "Light-handed Regulation" is Actually a Form of Regulation
Tres Amigas Project Discussed on Public Radio Show
Research Mounts Showing Vitamin D's Health Benefits
Jonah Lehrer Channels His Inner Economist
More on Natural Gas from Shale and Its Critic
Long-Distance Transmission Complements "Local Self Reliance"
Football Helmets and Head Injuries
Cooperation and Cheating Among Bacteria
Yergin: Oil Prices Not Driven by Supply and Demand...
If Wishes Were Horses, then What Should Venture Capitalists Do?
Energy Storage Questions and Answers
Hi Again; Some Reading Recommendations for the Holiday Season
Smart Meter Business is Booming
Reduced Air Emissions Due to Wind Power: Not As Much As You Might Think
"Hayek's Legacy ... is Still Brightly Promoted"
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Or, Why Oil Production Declines with Rock and Roll
New Meters Enabling New Rate Designs by Competitive Power Suppliers in Texas
Electricity and Water-understand the Relationship That is Causing Problems
The Key to Arizona's Energy Future
Designing Federal Programs That Work
Wholesale Power Markets for Beginners - The New Hampshire View
Blackouts in Brazil: Two Views
Tres Amigas Transmission Link Overview at Alt Energy Stocks
Buy American Sounds Great—until You Think About It
The Solar Panels That Pay for Themselves...
World Oil, but Apparently Not Local Shale Gas Skepticism
Austin Energy's Future Rate Hikes
Local TV News Coverage of the Proposed End of 90+ Years of Electric Competition in Lubbock
What the Fpl 2009 3q Earnings Call Transcript Says About the Texas Retail Market
The (soon to Be Revised) History of Electric Competition in Lubbock
Breaking News: Retail Power Competition To End In Lubbock After More Than 90 Years
Ghana and Its Newfound Oil: Can It Use the Alaska Model to Avoid the Resource Curse?
Natural Gas from Shale: Long Lasting or Going Fast?
Take-or-Pay Contracts: Lessons from Brazil and Bolivia
Gazprom, Europe, and Long-Term Take-or-Pay Contracts
Smart Meter Benefits Should Mostly Go to Utilities, Initially
Calling the Next Bubble: is There Currently a "Dollar-Led Asset Bubble"?
In Principle I'm in Favor of Spending Money on Economists
Unfair Prices and Moral Progress
Melissa Thomasson on This American Life on Health Insurance
Teece and Sidak on Dynamic Competition
Taxpayer Dollars to Support Utility Smart Grid Expenses
Mcardle on the Search for Financial Villians; Indiviglio on Electric Cars and Power Costs
More Post-season Tournament Design Issues: Mls Tiebreakers
Where Does Lithium Come From, Anyway?
Some Complexity-based Thoughts on Macro
Post-season Tournament Design: Seeding Issues
New Transmission Lines Are the Last Thing Renewable Power Needs, Says John Harrell
Power Consumers in New York and New England Markets Rely on Imports from Canada
Fake Chamber Press Conference? Funny. Fake Reporters? Not So Much.
Pandora+iphone = Excellent Car Radio Even in Lubbock
Raising a Generation of Grittier Children
Smart Meter Benefits Mostly Going to Utilities So Far
Not Helping out Due to Anti-price Gouging Laws
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, and Policy Toward Devices That Emit Carbon Dioxide
Market Designs for Tres Amigas: How About Trilateral Market Coupling?
External Costs of Energy Production, Auditing the Energy Star Program, and More
Roads and Paths As Common-pool Resources, and the Problem of Governing Them
Why Have 31 States Passed Anti-price Gouging Laws (and 19 Not)?
This Year's Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary
Florida Price Gouging Laws: Too Vague or Just Flexible?
Laura Levine Rock & Roll Photography
Only Possible in a Politics-free World ...
An Illustration of the Problem Discussed in an Earlier Post
Private Wires and the Electric Power Industry You Want
Tres Amigas Project Proposes to Connect Eastern, Western, and Texas Power Grids
Vincent and Elinor Ostrom and Public Ownership of Natural Resources
Henderson, Smith on the Nobel and Its Implications for Economics
High Costs Drive Government to Take over Government-Owned Electric Utility in Mexico
Ostrom's Work Lends Insight on Regulation
More on Ostrom and Williamson, and Decentralized Coordination
When Good Deals Go Bad for Economic Development Planners
Boom in Shale Natural Gas: Not Just for North America
New Economist Smart Grid Article
Oligopoly in Alaska's Wholesale Gasoline Market
"Battery Investing for Beginners"
The Future of Natural Gas Prices: a View from October 2009
A Big Day for Google 2: Power Meter and Ted!
A Big Day for Google 1: Verizon and Google
Does Ferc Have Jurisdiction over Installed Capacity Requirements in Wholesale Power Systems?
Did Prediction Markets Miss the Call on Chicago's Olympic Bid?
Consumer Protection in the Texas Retail Power Market, Part 2
Is Consumer Protection Lacking in Texas Retail Electric Power Market?
New York's Zone Pricing Ban Not Eliminating Retail Gasoline Price Differences
No Market Allowed for Desired Prayer Spaces
No Results Found for "True Number May Be Lower or Higher"
Peer-based Comparisons Can Induce Consumers to Reduce Energy Use
"Gas Station Owners Were Surprisingly Altruistic During That Time of Crisis"
Weekend Jaunt from Chicago: New Glarus, Wisconsin
Deductive Economic Rationality and Its Limitations
"Blended Deceit from the Nanny State"
Price Signals and Free Markets Lead to Oil Exploration: Who'd a Thunk It?
An Illustration of Comparative Advantage from Professional Cycling
Can a Keynesian Beauty Contest Improve Obama's Suggestion Box for Federal Employees?
Power Prices Work Best to Support Reliability when Prices Are Locational
Paternalistic Regulation and the Knowledge Problem
More on Michael Sandel, Justice and Price Gouging
Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Not Exactly Making Friends and Influencing People
Life Imitates Art: Nissan to Give Electric Car a “Beautiful and Futuristic” Noise
Grant Mccracken: Concatenating Capitalism
Iea: Recession => Lower Carbon Emissions
Justice, Promoting Virtue and Price Gouging
Sun is Always Shining for Solar Power Proponent
Walmart Says Iso Power Markets Offer Best Programs for Supporting Demand Response
The Business Cycle As a Recalculation Problem
Price Gouging and the "Dark Side of Cooperation"
Will Ethanol Become an Environmentally-friendly Fuel Some Day?
Danish Wind Power Report by LER, and Views from the NRDC
Retail Gasoline Stations Shutting Down to Avoid Price Gouging Complaints
Recessions: An Especially Bad Time to Impose Bad Public Policies
Tyler's Nyt Article -- Important and Well Worth Reading
Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report
The Wisdom of Crowds Has No Use for Predicting the Lottery
Better Place Has Deal to Provide Taxis in Toyko
Reactions to Krugman on the State of Macroeconomics
Eichengreen on How Economists Went Astray
Jonah Lehrer, Autism, and Surfing
Toby Considine on Retail Electricity Issues
Choice and Competition Protect Consumers of Healthcare ... and Electricity
Emergent Orders Are All Around Us, Especially in Cities
Jane Smiley: "All I Need to Know About Economics I Learned in Kindergarten"
Thomas Friedman Wants to Make the Policy Trains Run on Time
OPEC, CFTC, and the International Oil Market
Shane Greenstein on Remote Connectivity
Another Reason Why Retail Regulation is Obsolete: Atrocious Incentives
Is a Reverse Auction Feed-in Tariff "Market-Based"?
Wsj Offers Nuclear Power Update
College Football Playoffs and Other Ideas Mike Leach Likes
Does the Wall Street Journal Employ Anyone Who Understands Energy Markets? Three Rejoinders
Friday Football Notes from Chris Dillow
The Trouble with Two-Handed Economists
New Oilfield Shifts Supply Curve, but Slowly
Unintended Consequences, Hybrid Vehicles Edition
Solar Makes Financial Sense in Austin, if You Are Subsidized...
Don't Worry, the City Council Will Plusgood Monitor Big Brother to Prevent Abuse
State Legislatures and Pucs Prefer High Annual Electricity Bills for Retail Customers
You Heard It Here First, but Others Are Catching On: Social Media and Electricity Information
Friday Fun: Itunes' Underplayed List
Eternal Truths About Those Who Are Attracted to Politics
Is Bicycling "Bad to the Bone"?
Should the Federal Government Use the Spr to Counter Speculators?
Joe Romm to Michael Lynch on Peak Oil: Wanna Bet?
150th Anniversary of Edwin Drake's First Oil Well in Pennsylvania
Peak Oiler Responds to Lynch Op-ed in Nyt
Health Care Economics Tidbits: Mackey, New York Times, Horwitz
Kauffman Economics Bloggers Video
Give It Away Now: Wind Power and the Price of Electricity
Appliance Sales to Get 'cash for Clunkers' Boost?
On Peak Oil and National Energy Plans
Crabs and Crabbers: "Interests Are Not Always Aligned"
Highly Recommended Read on Waxman-markey: The Cap-and-trade Bait and Switch
If the E-fuel Microfueler Sounds Too Good to Be True...
The Cape Wind Power Project Counterfactual
The Real Meaning of Al Roth's Spam Blog Email: Time to Leave the Bargain Bin
The End of "Cash for Clunkers"
Will V2g Prove Profitable to Phev Owners?
Volatile Prices Decrease Consumer Satisfaction with Texas Competitive Retail Suppliers
More on Bicycle Prices in Portland...
Don't Follow the Swedish Health Care Model; Follow the Swedish Retail Electricity Model
I Still Don't Know Why I'd Want to Be on Facebook
A Customer's View of National Grid's Smart Meter Roll out
Gasoline Price Gouging After Hurricane Ike in South Carolina
Cash for Clunkers, Economics of
Peters: The Impact of Ferc Orders on the Value of Bidders in Pjm
Used Cars, Used Bikes; Phoenix, Seattle
Feed-in Tariffs Waste Resources and Make It Harder to Meet Europe's Renewable Energy Goals
Does "Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" Make Betting a Free Speech Issue?
Who Controls Access to Consumer Power Consumption Data?
The Unequivocal Superiority of the Feed-in Tariffs for Renewable Power?
More on Dynamic Electric Power Prices for Residential Customers in Illinois
Blog Recommendation: Jay Hancock
Dynamic Electric Power Prices for Residential Customers in Illinois
Anniversary: Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Import? Export? Which Way for Lng in North America?
Vero Beach Florida Could Become a Hothouse of Dynamic Competition in Retail Electric Power
Evolving Competition: Whole Foods, Costco, Trader Joe's
Natural Gas Imports: From Russia, with Love?
Wind Power, Birds, Public Policy, and the Irrational Fears of Non-voters
Home Energy Management and Home Security Product Bundling
7 Individual Energy Management Iphone Apps
Keeping Some Speculators out of the Oil Market May Lead to Higher Oil Prices
We Can "Cure" High Frequency Trading, but is It Really a Public Policy Problem?
On Integrating Wind Power to the Texas Grid
Same Old Advice Gets New Package
Energy Geeks Rejoice! Ecobee to Offer Thermostat Control Via Iphone App
Firstenergy Seeks Switch from Midwest Iso to Pjm
Refinery Outages Generally Have Small Effects on Gasoline Prices, Gao Says
Wind Energy Code of Conduct for New York
Do School Buses Use More Energy Than the Likely Alternatives?
Why is Selling Bottled Tap Water Odd?
Power from the Wind: the View from 1909
Blog Recommendation: Structured Thinking
Wind Power: My Advice to Free Market Critics
The Wind Industry Loves to Fret
Balancing Swings in Power from Wind Farms on the Bonneville Power Administration Grid
Retailing Gasoline: At Least Twice a Day Dan Checks Up on His Competition
A Monday Morning Smart Grid Roundup
The Gold in the Oceans and the Gold in Algae Biofuels
Jetstream Announces More Utility-scale, Zero-emissions Hydrogen Power Plants
Update on My Budget Customer Service Post
Why Arizona Should Encourage Development of a Open, Competitive Electric Power Market
Negative Power Prices in Ercot West: Charts for Jan-june 2009
Consumers, Utilities and the Smart Grid
Ftc Finds No Evidence of Illegal Activity After Investigation of Western New York Gasoline Prices
Endangered Species for Sale, for Their Own Good and Ours
Psa: Bad Customer Service from Budget Car Rental
Nine Months After the Zone Pricing Ban in New York...
Punishing Gasoline Customers for Non-Existent 'Price Gouging' by New Jersy Station
What's So Funny About Generating Power from Onion Juice?
Offshore Wind Power and Data Center?
Power Consumers in Ercot Should Keep an Eye on Puct Rulemaking Project 34577
John Cleese's Wine for the Confused
Informal Networks As Social Insurance
FERC's Smart Grid Policy Statement (And an Aside on Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues)
FERC Directs New York Power System Operator to Fix "Loop Flow" Scheduling Problem
World's First Utility-Scale, Zero-Emissions Hydrogen Power Plant?
Five Guys in Lubbock: The New Best Burger in Town
More on the FTC and Western New York Gasoline Prices
Never Did See That Ftc Report on Western New York Gasoline Prices
Race Report: Trek Women's Triathlon Wisconsin
Geoff Styles on the CFTC's Desire to Fix Up Energy Futures Markets
This Year for the Tour I'm in the Vande Velde/Garmin Cheering Section
Ge's Light Bulb Development Pipeline
Health Care Policy, Individual Consumption Portfolios, and Liberty
Sources and Uses of Electric Power Consumed in the United States
Pickens New Plan: Not to Build the World's Largest Wind Power Farm
CFTC to Consider Position Limits on Energy Futures Contracts
The Economist, Computer World on Building the Smart Grid
Wired Guide to Following the Tour De France Online
Anderson/gladwell Debate Brings out All of the Web Intelligentsia
Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles and the New York Electric Power System
Walmart Supports Employer Health Care to Raise Rivals' Costs
Technology and Changing the Business Model in the Electricity Industry
Open-Road Electronic Tolling Also Reduces Emissions
Boldrin, Romer, and Roberts on Intellectual Property
The Least Frequently Asked Question Ever
Onions, Oil, Speculators, Congress
Meet James Ensor, Belgium's Famous Painter, at New York's Moma
Transparency and Representation in the Waxman-Markey Vote
NYT's Interactive Waxman-Markey Voting Map
Is Either Google or Facebook the Model of the Internet's Future?
Sunday Recipe Post: Lynne's Perfect Pancakes
Microsoft's Hohm Joins the Smart Grid Fray
Another Waxman-markey Blemish: Reinforcing the Obsolete Utility Business Model
A New Paper, and Presenting It at Conferences This Week
Coal in a World of Cheap Natural Gas
Another Note on Natural Gas Supply in the Us
What Are the Best Books on the Economic History of Energy Technology and Development?
Water Footprint As the Next Big Thing
Will Wind Energy Follow Ethanol's Path?
And I Thought Texas Politics Was Entertaining...
It's the End of the School Year ...
Solar Project at Pearl Brewery in San Antonio
Power Trip Documentary to Be Aired
Estimated Wind Power Output in Ercot for Summer 2009
What Does Waxman-markey Have to Say About Kites?
Waxman-markey is Really a Command-and-control Energy Bill? No, Say It Ain't So!
The Economic and Environmental Value of Forests
On Ethanol's Subsidy and Related
Expectations Driving Gas Prices
Mankiw on the B-School Economist
Innovations in Solar Inverter Technologies, and Their Economic Impact
Economic Experiments on Growth Policy
Tim Haab: Michael Moore is a Bad Economist
Predictable Consequences of Anti-price Gouging Laws
About "Something Mostly Enjoyable That Also Performs a Function"
Solar Power: Policies Should Encourage Thoughtful Development
Want Better Electricity Information? Do It Yourself!
More Smart Grid Q and A at Greentech Media
Smart Grid Q and A at Greentech Media
Is the Zone Pricing Ban Raising Average Gasoline Prices in New York?
My Smart Grid Article in Reason
Glaeser and Florida on Urbanization, and Nashville's Lure
Auctions As Tools to Limit Government Discretion
Price Gouging Policy As Rendered in Everyday Politics
Lng Possibilities Keeping Natural Gas Prices Down in U.S.
Arizona Commissioners' Views on a Non-jurisdictional Utility's Cost-Cutting Plan
Bootleggers and Baptists and Carbon Policy
Flywheel Technology Now Ready for Takeoff? Nyiso Tariff Changes Accomodate Energy Storage Technology
Consequences of Dynamic Transmission Line Rating for Renewable Power
Jazz at the Village Vanguard on NPR
No Regulator Has or Will Have the Information, Expertise, or Esp Required to Do This
The Bicycle Paved the Road for Automobiles
Perennial Gale of Creative Destruction, Personal Wireless Division
Gasoline Retailer Opposes a Zone Pricing Ban in Connecticut
Where I Am Not Shopping for Alcohol in Lubbock, Texas
Congressman to Western New York Gasoline Retailers: We Will Be Watching You
Price Fishback on the Great Depression and Today
2009 Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey
Sorting out Some Claims About Danish Wind Power
A Triathlete's Favorite New Yorker Cartoon
Anti-price Gouging Laws and Economic Efficiency: On Rapp and Skarbek on Price Gouging
Administration Abandons Airport Landing Slot Auction
Todd Zywicki: the Commerce Clause is in the Constitution for a Reason
Price Gouging: Is It Wrong? Should It Be Against the Law?
Price Gouging and Behavioral Economics – More Work Needed
May is Bike Month and May 11-15 is Bike-to-Work Week
Articles on Wind Power in Ontario Address Effects on Emissions, Other Issues
This Anti-Neuroeconomics Screed on Marketwatch is So Bad You Have to Stop and Look
Jeremy Rifkind, Thinking Big About Distributed Energy Resources
Illinois Smart Grid Initiative Final Report
Hartford Courant Editorializes Against Zone Pricing Ban in Connecticut
Whirlpool: Smart Grid Appliances by 2015
Munson: From Edison to Enron to Casten
My Favorite Question on My Electric Power Industry Final Exam
Electric Power Consumers in New Jersey Are Pursuing Lower Prices
FERC is to Ercot As Spider is to ______.
Some Smart Grid Consumer Value Propositions
Resilience, Sustainability, and Loosely-coupled Systems
Western Swing is Dead! Long Live Western Swing!
A Problem with Market-Based Approaches to Emission Reductions
A Solar Panel, a Jug of Wine and Thou
Using Brain Waves to Write/Type
Oil Shocker: Energy Economist Bids to Get Back on the Front Page
Wind Power and Bird Deaths and Frederic Bastiat
Ge-fpl Smart Grid Investments in Florida
Estimates of Net Cost of Waxman-Markey Bill
Peer-to-peer Power Through Microgrids
No "Magic Number" for Renewable Power
What if Power Companies Became More Like Banks?
Regulated Utilities, Wall Street, and Smart Grid Investment
Edmund Phelps Explains "Knowledge Problem"
Flawed Report, Subsequent Debate Should Advance Understanding of Nyiso Market
Lobbying Pays -- Is Anyone Surprised?
Smart Grid, Complexity, and Swarm Logic
Can Congress Be Trusted to Design Effective Carbon Policy? I Doubt It
Sunday Drive-by Grassroots Economics
Can Green Bank Proposal Pass the Laugh Test?
Training Log Update: Buckeye Outdoors
An All Solar City? Not Exactly
Hey, Someone in Bakersfield Just Bought Purple Converse Hi-Tops!
A Thursday Afternoon Links Roundup
Cybersecurity and the Smart Grid
Itunes and Music Price Discrimination
Overlapping Transmission Grids in West Texas Will Give Power Plants the Power to Choose
Yo Athletes! What's Your Preferred Online Training Log?
Pete Leeson: Why Failure is Valuable
Geek Tourism for Electric Power Economists
Recovery is About Entrepreneurship
Spring Has Sprung, with Lamb Stew and Cinsault
The Role of Universities and Taxpayer-Funded Research in Economic Growth
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
Is "First in Time, First in Right" the Best Way to Allocate Rights to Wind Energy?
Are Wind Power Producers the Low Cost Suppliers of Frequency Control Service in Ercot?
Cringely on Google's Power Meter
Battery Technology and the Electric Power Grid and Unreliable Power Sources
Building New Transmission ? Smart Grid
Consumers Asked to Pay More Next Year for Last Year's Increases in Utility Costs
Greentech Media Asks, Will Utilities or Customers Lead in Smart Grid?
"Twitter Marks an Advance in Freedom"
Becoming a Pull Organization, or an Industry of Pull Organizations
Daily Reading: Al Daily and The Browser
Walk Score: Comparing My New and Old Neighborhoods
Reiham Salam on the Angelheaded Hipsters at Sxsw Interactive
FERC's Smart Grid Policy Statement
Peculiar, Missouri and Retroactive Policymaking
A Few Thoughts on the Aig Outrage
Slate on Winning Your Ncaa Pool
Environmental Benefits and the Production Tax Credit for Wind Power
Monday and Tuesday: Gridecon in Chicago
Will Pricing Carbon Raise Electricity Prices?
Also in the Wsj: "There is No Such Thing As Nuclear Waste"
Because It is Not News Until It is on Comedy Central; Or, Carbon Taxes Their Brains
Some Smart Grid Reading Recommendations
Recommendations for Smart Grid Policy (Part 5 of 5)
Power Market Seams and the Role of Arbitragers in Market Design
Wind Power is Dispatchable, Down
The Ethanol Drag on Consumer Value and Government Revenue
Smart Grid and Renewables Interconnection (Part 4 of 5)
Why is Chris Masse Making a Big Deal About a Little Article on Prediction Markets in The Economist?
The Natural Gas Industry is Adapting to Changing Conditions
Intelligent End-use Devices Make a Transactive Smart Grid Valuable (Part 3 of 5)
Retail Electric Power Market Shakeout in Texas, Ii
One Aspect of Auction Design That May Need Greater Attention
A Smart Grid is a Transactive Grid (Part 2 of 5)
Smart Grid Technology, Economics, and Policy (Part 1 of 5)
The Retail Electric Power Market Shakeout in Texas
Lower Prices for Electric Power in Texas
Does "Competitive Electricity Markets" Want to Be Free?
Who Needs Charitable Giving when You Can Have Big Government?
Should Advocates of Electric Industry Restructuring Have Not Promised Lower Rates?
Lng and the Future of Natural Gas Prices in the U.S.
Animal Conservation Through Prices
Does Anyone Care About Oil and Gas Reserves Reports Included in Year-end Financial Statements?
Smart Grid Rhetoric at Yesterday's Clean Energy Summit
An Economic History Lesson on Fiscal Responsibility
The Continuing Relevance of the Bootlegger-And-Baptist Model
British Government Desire for Surveillance Expropriates Private Property
Update: The Tea Party's Brewing ...
Mortgage Bailouts and the Chicago Tea Party
A New Paper from Me: Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Decentralized Coordination
Coffee Shop Builds Business with Twitter
Why Are Gasoline Prices So High? (February 2009 Version).
Twitter's Gonna Transform Professional Cycling
P.G. O'Rourke's Adam Smith Column
Chris Masse: The Truth About Prediction Markets
Luminant to Idle 15 Natural Gas Fired Generators in Texas
Negative Power Prices in Ercot West - 2009 So Far
Google Enters Smart Grid; Will They Pass the Transactive Test?
The Wind Power 'chicken and Egg' Problem in the Eastern Interconnection
Lower Prices for Electric Power
Current Status of Bio-diesel from Algae: "Your Fishtank is Not a Goldmine."
Is Matt Welch My Alter Ego? I Can Haz Wit?
Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Government Spending Links for Today
What to Make of the Fiscal Policy Discussion?
Bailouts, Stimulus, and Debt: John Cochrane and Russ Roberts on Econtalk
My Three Favorite Things About the Super Bowl
Contango and Storage Arbitrage
Texas Regulators Choose Companies to Build Transmission to Reach Wind Power
Updated: Negative Power Prices in the West Region of Ercot in 2008
Most Expensive Gasoline in America - a Zone Pricing Protest
More on Airline Fuel Cost Hedging: Air New Zealand Takes Hit
Zayed Future Energy Prize Awarded to Dipal Chandra Barua
Any Good Analyses Comparing Renewable and Nuclear Costs?
Fuel Hedging: Sometimes You Get the Bear, Sometimes the Bear Gets You
"Fixing" the Economy: How Do You "Fix" an Ecosystem?
What Provisions Might a Federal Power Act of 2009 Contain?
Falling Carbon Permit Prices in Europe: Threat or Menace?
Airport Kabuki: Bruce Schneier on "Security Theater"
Monopoly, Competition, and the Fear of Failure
Carbon Tax Vs. Cap-and-trade, Again
Uscap's Blueprint for Climate Policy
Even in Texas Competition Between Electric Wires Companies is Prohibited, Except in Lubbock
A Roundup of Some Smart Grid Links
Eric Morris: Why You'll Love Paying for Roads That You Don't Pay for Now
The History of Air: Nick Gillespie on Joseph Priestley
Nudging Down Food Waste in Cafeterias
What Fixed Vs. Flexible Retail Power Rates in Texas Tell Us About Wind Power in the Ercot Market
Cass Sunstein, Oira, and Nudging
Russia and Ukraine Natural Gas Disputes Illustrate the Bilateral Monopoly Problem
Low Entry Barriers in Electric Car Market
My Predictable Comment on the Nfl Playoffs
Culinary Notes: Foods That Are Good for You, Including ... Duck Fat?
My Benchmark Oil Price is Better Than Yours
What Model for the Financial System Breakdown? Falling Dominoes? Cascading Outages?
Alex Has More to Say on Smart Grid and Stimulus
Russia Throwing Its Gassy Weight Around, Again
News from the Ces: Induction Chargers Ftw?
New Energy Blog: Master Resource
Apple's New Itunes Pricing and Drm-free Songs: the Results of Competition
Gates Mend Risk is an Anagram for Market Designs