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By cgfi on March 09th, 2010

LOSING JOBS WITH GREEN TECHNOLOGY, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

President Obama has allocated $4 billion in “stimulus funds” to help advance the “smart grid,” which is intended to seamlessly integrate all our new solar and wind power into the national supply of electricity. Much of the $4 billion will be spent to install 20 million new digital “smart meters.” These meters will instantly tell the power company how to deploy its varied generating sources most effectively.

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By cgfi on November 03rd, 2009

WHAT’S THE REAL COST OF GLOBAL WARMING TAXES?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The leftish Brookings Institution and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce basically agree that the energy taxes in the House Waxman-Markey bill could total $9 trillion over ten years. As an economist, I look at these forecasts and wonder “How can we possibly know?”  
  
These estimates cover only the costs of the “user permits” [...]

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