The Open Market Blog

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/12/2007

At a Capitol Hill policy briefing on February 9 for congressional staff and media, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dennis Avery of the Hudson…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/02/2007

Today, in a press release timed to coincide with publication of the Summary for Policymakers of Climate Change 2007, also known as the…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/01/2007

Not content to report the weather, the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen has become a global warming pundit, recently appearing on Larry King Live, where…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/30/2007

I post this article, despite its breathless credulity about the imminence of a world beyond petroleum, because it reveals how Washington works. Bush and the…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/26/2007

From a free-market perspective, the only redeeming social value in the Bush Administration’s biofuels initiative is the proposal to lift the 54-cents-a-gallon tariff and 2.5…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/26/2007

I recently debated a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) activist on global warming and the future of the U.S. electricity supply. The activist made the…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/24/2007

In this post, I comment on President Bush's remarks, in the State of the Union address, about energy. Although a few nods to the old…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/18/2007

Several automakers and dealers are suing (warning: big PDF file) California to overturn the “landmark” (pro-Kyoto) legislation requiring new vehicles sold in the state…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Lester Brown, founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute, estimates that in 2008, U.S. ethanol distilleries will require 139 million tons of corn…