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More Bad Neo-Malthusian Behavior (Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick joins the Climategate Gang, Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, etc.)
by Robert Bradley Jr.
February 21, 2012
Rob Bradley’s interest in energy began when he prepared a study on the oil-reseller boom for a Houston bank in 1980. This investigation into the interplay of business and 1970s oil price and allocation regulation led him to apply for a grant from the Cato Institute to write a history of U.S. oil and natural gas regulation, an anticipated 18-month project that turned into five years of full-time effort. After nearly a decade of trying to find a publisher for the 2,000-page tome, Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience was published in two volumes in 1996 by Rowman & Littlefield.
That beginning was followed by 16 years in the energy industry. In 1985, Bradley joined HNG-InterNorth (soon to be renamed Enron) as a Houston-based analyst with Transwestern Pipeline Company, which sold natural gas to the California market. An interstate gas transmission company, Transwestern was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which provided Bradley with an education into cost-of-service, public-utility regulation.
With natural gas as the swing fuel in California’s electricity generation, Bradley also became conversant with the electricity market and public-utility regulation of gas and electricity on the state level. The California Public Utilities Commission was also active in environmental programs, as was the California Energy Commission.
In 1995, Bradley left Transwestern to become director of public policy analysis at Enron, a corporate staff position. A primary job was preparing speeches for chairman and CEO Ken Lay, but Bradley also was involved in legislative and regulatory issues. It was here that he became very involved in the internal debate over global warming strategy and renewable energy. His criticism of climate alarmism and Enron’s “political capitalism” is evidenced by memos posted on the website, www.politicalcapitalism.org.
Today, Bradley is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research; an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.; and a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Bradley is also a senior research fellow of the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, among other honorary affiliations.
Bradley’s most recent book is Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (M&M Scrivener Press), which applies the capitalist worldview to corporate and energy controversies. His website www.politicalcapitalism.org covers this work and two forthcoming books in his trilogy on political capitalism in the energy industry.
Bradley’s other books are: The Mirage of Oil Protection (1989); Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (2000); Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) Energy: The Master Resource (2004).
MasterResource is a blog dedicated to analysis and commentary about energy markets and public policy.
Precisely because energy is the lifeblood of the modern economy – the “master resource” that affects the production and use of all other resources – energy markets are often thought of as “different” and thus deserving of special political direction. We believe that the economic rules governing energy are no different from those governing other markets and are thus skeptical about government intervention. Drawing on this perspective, while employing both economic theory and market history, we hope to better inform the energy debate in a civil but forceful manner, without recourse to political partisanship or ideological cant.
MasterResource welcomes comments of substance that are on-topic and in good taste. MasterResource comments that are cross-posted elsewhere by the author should follow the same standard for comment privileges.
T-Bob's alts must be busy agreeing with each other.
They like to give each other a reach around.
They like to give each other a reach around.
You should talk, mister "tramping out the vintage".BFD. You must know that delusions of grandeur are a symptom, right?![]()
Ahahahahahaha!
Another reference to someone else's cock? Seriously, just come out dude. This is the 21st century. No one here cares that you are gay. Fuck...I'd even start to respect you for being honest for once.
It's like irony is a completely unknown concept in their pointy little heads.
They like to give each other a reach around.
You are a pathetic little worm, you know that right?
Another reference to someone else's cock? Seriously, just come out dude. This is the 21st century. No one here cares that you are gay. Fuck...I'd even start to respect you for being honest for once.
You are a pathetic little worm, you know that right?
You know my policy, answer in kind.
You know my policy, answer in kind.
NeverEndingMe is a idiot that hates America and working American families.
It takes courage to be so bold in your beliefs.
Think back to the previous administration and how you and yours howled, climbed the walls without logic and absent all integrity, ad infinitum. Told you then to stand by for the very same consideration of your candidate when and if he took office. Pay back is hell. When you assholes start acting like human beings and treat people with integrity and consideration, you'll be treated in kind, meanwhile it's game on.
Think back to the previous administration and how you and yours howled, climbed the walls without logic and absent all integrity, ad infinitum. Told you then to stand by for the very same consideration of your candidate when and if he took office. Pay back is hell. When you assholes start acting like human beings and treat people with integrity and consideration, you'll be treated in kind, meanwhile it's game on.
Vetteman is driven by three things in live:
1. "Better America should fail then the negar president succeed"
2. Bodily wastes
3. Other men's penises.