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Free Market Electricity: A Primer

Sep 16, 2024 | aier.org | Robert Bradley

Electricity is among the most-regulated sectors of the U.S. economy. A century of public-utility regulation of entry and rates has given way to new suites of government intervention. Wholesale electricity is centrally planned in most states, creating a contrived retail market. At the same time, government policies have increasingly displaced thermal generation (natural gas, oil, coal, and nuclear) with intermittent wind and solar power, requiring costly battery storage.
Limpopo pangolin ‘dealer’ sentenced to five years in prison

Jun 22, 2024 | sowetanlive.co.za | Phathu Luvhengo |Robert Bradley

George Marawidzi was convicted and sentenced to five years' imprisonment or a R10,000 fine for illegal possession of a pangolin. Stock photo. A Limpopo man, George Marawidzi, 60, has been convicted and sentenced to five years' imprisonment or a R10,000 fine for illegal possession of a pangolin. He was sentenced on Thursday in the Phalaborwa regional court in Limpopo.
DUX4 is a common driver of immune evasion and immunotherapy failure in metastatic cancers

Jun 3, 2024 | elifesciences.org | Robert Bradley |Helmut Bischof |Brandon Hayes |Keene L. Abbott

Request a detailed protocol We implemented an RSF model, an ensemble of multiple base learners (survival trees), using the randomForestSRC package (Ishwaran et al., 2008). The RSF algorithm is an extension of the Random Forest Algorithm (Breiman, 2001) for usage with right-censored data.
Fossil Fuels: An Expanding Resource

May 31, 2024 | instituteforenergyresearch.org | Robert Bradley

Depletable resources deplete—which would seem to mean less and less for the future with ongoing production. But the actual statistics of oil, natural gas, and coal show the opposite. The more that is extracted, the more there is to extract. This is not the biblical story of the fishes and loaves. It is the result of resourceship, or entrepreneurship applied to resources in free economies.
Happy Motoring!

May 25, 2024 | instituteforenergyresearch.org | Robert Bradley

It’s a thumbs up for all modes of travel this Memorial Day weekend, as “Nearly 44 Million Travelers Leaving Town for Unofficial Start of Summer,” the American Automobile Association reports. Furthermore, AAA calculates that a million more Americans are traveling fifty miles or more this weekend versus five years ago, which “signals a very busy summer travel season ahead.”Whether driving, busing, flying, cruising, or riding the rails, virtually all the energy comes from gasoline or diesel.
Al Gore: Climate Barker

Nov 28, 2023 | instituteforenergyresearch.org | Robert Bradley

If science is prediction, then Al Gore has some explaining to do. Gore the presidential candidate has more explaining to do relative to his climate alarm. But private citizen Gore, with an enormous CO2 footprint, can claim to be a tree hugger after all. With his star shining over COP28 this week, it is timely to revisit Gore’s pronouncements and prognostications in all three areas.
Thanksgiving for Freedom and Energy

Nov 21, 2023 | instituteforenergyresearch.org | Robert Bradley

“More often than not, we tend to overlook our truly spectacular rise from grinding poverty to previously unimaginable abundance. And so, during this Thanksgiving holiday, let us give thanks for accountable government, market economy, and scientific progress that make a king out of each of us.”– Marian Tupy, “Some Perspective on What We Have to Be Thankful For,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2014.
Reporters don't write headlines

Nov 4, 2023 | econlib.org | Scott Sumner |Pierre Lemieux |Robert Bradley

I’ve frequently argued that differences in state income tax rates help to explain interstate migration patterns, especially for high-income individuals, Places like Tennessee, Texas and Florida are drawing residents from more highly taxes areas. Bloomberg reporter Jonathan Levin recently made the following claim about Jeff Bezos’s decision to move to Florida: Lastly, I’d be remiss to ignore taxes completely.
Analysis: The Embargo at 50: Regulatory Causality vs. Anti-Oil Narrative

Nov 3, 2023 | heartlanddailynews.com | Robert Bradley

By Robert Bradley, Jr.The terms “Oil Embargo” and “Energy Crisis” have been embedded in the nation’s history for a half-century. But that crisis was the result of government intervention, not market failure. Specifically, the age-old sin of government price controls was forgotten and repeated in the context of international events that occurred after a massive intervention, not before.