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Jerry Taylor
Opinion and Commentary
"Market Power - The Mistake of Subsidizing Pet Energy Causes," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review, October 21, 2009
"Chumps for Clunkers," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), August 7, 2009
"All Cost, No Benefit," USA Today, May 20, 2009
"Jack Kemp -- A Dissenting View," National Review (Online), May 11, 2009
"What Will Climate Change Cost Us?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, December 18, 2008
"Obama's the Candid Candidate on Energy," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Forbes, November 3, 2008
"The Case against Government Support for Alternative Energy," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Google Knol, October 24, 2008
"Nuclear Energy: Risky Business," Reason, October 22, 2008
"Stop That Energy Bill!," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 9, 2008
"Random Oil," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Forbes, September 4, 2008
"Powering the Future," Los Angeles Times (Online), August 22, 2008
"No One Should Make Predictions," Los Angeles Times (Online), August 21, 2008
"Nukes to the Rescue?," Los Angeles Times (Online), August 20, 2008
"Pickens' Plan to Rig the Market," Los Angeles Times (Online), August 19, 2008
"Offshore Drilling Is a Risk Worth Taking," Los Angeles Times (Online), August 18, 2008
"A Big Surprise on Gas," by Indur Goklany and Jerry Taylor, Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2008
"Wrong Then, Too," National Review, August 6, 2008
"T. Boone Hard-Wired for Subsidies," National Post, July 24, 2008
"Solving Pump Pain," New York Post, June 2, 2008
"Kingdom Done," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 23, 2008
"McCain-Clinton 2008," by Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale, National Review (Online), May 14, 2008
"Leave Those Car Buyers Alone," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), December 19, 2007
"Hooked on Subsidies," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Forbes, November 12, 2007
"Be Not Afraid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 28, 2007
"All Circuits Misloaded," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 26, 2007
"Short-Circuited," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2007
"Don't Raise CAFE Standards," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), August 1, 2007
"It's a Syn," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review, June 11, 2007
"Congressman, Step Away from the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 25, 2007
"Paying More Than Ever For Gas? Not If Buying Power Is Considered," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, May 25, 2007
"OPEC Is Not in the House," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 24, 2007
"Energy Nonsense," National Review (Online), May 16, 2007
"Dumber by the Day," National Review (Online), May 16, 2007
"Wishful Thinking Is No Magical Energy Elixir," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, February 26, 2007
"Pay Bosses More!," by Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale, The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2007
"Is Angela Lansbury President?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 21, 2007
"The Public Won't Pay for Global Warming Legislation," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Tampa Tribune, January 31, 2007
"Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Chicago Sun-Times, January 27, 2007
"Oil Subsidies in the Dock," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), January 17, 2007
"International Energy Blather," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, South China Morning Post, December 21, 2006
"Global Warming Insurance is a Bad Buy," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), November 20, 2006
"Stern Rebuke: Global-warming insurance is a bad buy," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review, November 20, 2006
"California Focus: Prop. 87 Equals Higher Gas Prices," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, October 4, 2006
"California’s Global Warming Dodge," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, September 15, 2006
"An Argument against Oil Price Minimums," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, WashingtonPost.com, May 29, 2006
"Republicans Out of Gas," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 17, 2006
"Gasoline Prices in Perspective," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, May 17, 2006
"For Now, Gasoline Is Our Only Cheap Fuel," Arizona Republic, May 7, 2006
"Gas Prices Soar: Markets or manipulation?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, April 30, 2006
"Windfall Profits Tax Would Hardly Be Revenue Gusher," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2006
"Senate Sends in Clowns on Oil M&As," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, March 24, 2006
"Driving Bin Laden?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), March 8, 2006
"Wish upon a star: Sell Disney the Grand Canyon," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Houston Chronicle, February 26, 2006
"Stuck on Empty," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 3, 2006
"Exxon's Earnings: No Apology Necessary," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Investor's Business Daily, February 2, 2006
"Corner Extra: Energy Yack," National Review (Online), January 31, 2006
"Running on Empty," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The New York Times, January 3, 2006
"Republicans vs. Oil," National Review (Online), November 8, 2005
"Gouge On," National Review (Online), September 2, 2005
"The Energy Bill: It Could Have Been Worse," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2005
"Energy Bill Blues," by Jerry Taylor and Daniel Becker, Washington Times, July 30, 2005
"Burning Money Produces Scant Energy," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 29, 2005
"Energy-Bill Follies," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), July 19, 2005
"Hot Enough for You? The state of the global-warming debate, and politicking," National Review, July 18, 2005
"High Pump-Price Fairy Tales," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), June 3, 2005
"High-Octane Amnesia," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2005
"What's the Answer for High Gasoline Prices? Nothing," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, October 22, 2004
"No reason to cut U.S. oil imports," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 26, 2004
"The Energy Mirage," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review, September 13, 2004
"Energy Independence? Kerry's Dreaming," Cato.org, August 24, 2004
"Still Groping in the Dark?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2004
"The Fight Over the Roadless Rule," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, July 21, 2004
"What's Really Under Indictment?," The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2004
"Stop Global Warming? California's Dreaming," Cato.org, July 1, 2004
"OPEC in the Dock," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, June 3, 2004
"Run for the Reserve!," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 20, 2004
"Riding Out the Gas Spike," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Fox News (Online), May 14, 2004
"Energy Bill Illusions," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, April 16, 2004
"Dam Pols," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), April 5, 2004
"Political Protection vs. Markets," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), April 2, 2004
"OPEC Is No Friend of Ours," Cato.org, March 26, 2004
"Energy Conservation Zealots 1, Consumers 0," National Review (Online), January 21, 2004
"Congress vs. Responsibility," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), December 8, 2003
"New Source Review: Blame the Congress," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Fox News (Online), November 26, 2003
"$80 Billion Pork-Barrel Power Bill," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, November 20, 2003
"Mighty Porking Power Rangers: Scanning the energy bill," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), November 19, 2003
"Stop that Energy Bill!," Cato.org, November 3, 2003
"A Complete Waste of Energy," by Jerry Taylor and Daniel Becker, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2003
"Time to Lay the 1973 Oil Embargo to Rest," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, October 17, 2003
"Congressional Review of Blackout," Cato.org, September 8, 2003
"California Energy Crisis -- Take Two?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, September 5, 2003
"The Right Way to Fix the Grid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, New York Post, August 19, 2003
"Outside the Grid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2003
"Not Cheap, Not Green," Washington Times, August 4, 2003
"Bush Tax Cut Takes Conservatives to the Cleaners," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, July 27, 2003
"No Corporate Welfare for Nuclear Power," by Navin Nayak and Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, June 21, 2003
"The Energy Bill Follies," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, May 12, 2003
"Happy Earth Day? Thank Capitalism," New York Sun, April 22, 2003
"ANWR's Private Potential," Washington Times, April 7, 2003
"Let ’Em Gouge: A Defense of Price Gouging," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), April 1, 2003
"Balance Sheet of Gouging," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Washington Times, March 28, 2003
"Blood for Oil?," Cato.org, March 18, 2003
"Unsafe Driving Blind Spot," Washington Times, February 19, 2003
"Stop! Don’t Ditch Your SUV Just Yet," Washington Times, February 4, 2003
"Anti-SUV Silliness," National Review (Online), December 18, 2002
"No Corporate Wolf at the Environmental Door," Cato.org, November 26, 2002
"Taking Environmentalists Seriously," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, November 15, 2002
"Missed the Energy Crisis? We Hardy Knew Ye," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 4, 2002
"Bush Is Right to Snub Johannesburg," Cato.org, August 31, 2002
"It's the Third World -- Not the West -- That's Unsustainable," National Review (Online), August 28, 2002
"Pricing the Fast Lane," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, July 12, 2002
"Leave Those Air Conditioners Alone!," Cato.org, July 11, 2002
"The Saudi's Con Game," National Review (Online), May 14, 2002
"An Oil Embargo Won't Work," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2002
"Oh, No! That '70s Show: Against Carterism in energy policy," National Review, March 25, 2002
"The Enron Blame Game," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, January 29, 2002
"Markets Work Magic," USA Today, December 24, 2001
"Oil Weapon Myth," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), December 5, 2001
"Don't Fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Drain It," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, December 3, 2001
"Quit Turning the Other Cheek with Saudi Arabia," by Jerry Taylor and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, November 16, 2001
"Don't Worry About Energy Security," Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2001
"No Matter What, The Oil Will Flow," Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2001
"Terror at the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, September 17, 2001
"Panic at the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 14, 2001
"Where Did the Energy Crisis Go?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 4, 2001
"Leave Those SUVs Alone," National Review (Online), August 14, 2001
"Lawsuits Prove That Gov. Davis Deceived Public About California Energy Crisis," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, August 9, 2001
"The Suits Tell the Tale," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), July 27, 2001
"Free market trumps policy," USA Today, July 17, 2001
"Bush Goes Native on Price Controls," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, June 30, 2001
"Governor Davis In Flames," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), May 31, 2001
"The Bush-Davis Power Hour," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, May 30, 2001
"Just Say "No" to the Energy Plan," National Review (Online), May 19, 2001
"Nuclear Power Play," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, May 18, 2001
"Sound & Fury at the Pump," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, May 15, 2001
"The Illusion of Energy Efficiency," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, April 24, 2001
""Green Scissors," Dull Shears," by Jerry Taylor and Stephen Slivinski, Cato.org, April 17, 2001
"Power Economics," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), March 28, 2001
"Energy Alarms," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Washington Times, March 23, 2001
"Just Say No to a California Bailout," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, March 1, 2001
"Paul Krugman Short Circuits," National Review (Online), February 21, 2001
"Market more effective at regulating prices than politicians," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 8, 2001
"Where Are California's Enviros?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, February 8, 2001
"California's Electricity Plan Falls Short," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 7, 2001
"Wrong Way Out of the Dark?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, October 27, 2003
"Electricity Deregulation Must Target Demand," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, January 23, 2001
"Prediction: California Power Deregulation Will be a Fiasco," National Post, January 19, 2001
"California's Troubles Not Caused by Deregulation," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Houston Chronicle, January 15, 2001
"Get Bush's Environment Record Straight," Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2000
"Bush's Energy Babble," National Review (Online), September 30, 2000
"Reserve Time," Cato.org, September 26, 2000
"Drain the strategic petroleum reserve," Cato.org, September 26, 2000
"No Need to Panic over Oil Prices: Don't Believe the Politicians' Rhetoric," National Review (Online), September 7, 2000
"Left, Right and Wrong on Energy," Cato.org, August 14, 2000
"Slick Trick," St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 11, 2000
"Extended Parade of Horribles," Washington Times, June 24, 2000
"Bad Policies Fuel Midwest Gasoline Prices," Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2000
"Bad Government Policies Fuel Gas Prices," Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2000
"Global-Warming Report Bulges with Hot Air," Cato.org, June 17, 2000
"The Environmental Movement: Running Out of Gas," Cato.org, May 2, 2000
"Sprawl for Me, But Not for Thee," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, April 26, 2000
"Gore's Earth Day Message," Cato.org, April 22, 2000
"Democracy's at Stake in the Fight over Tobacco Regulation," Cato.org, April 19, 2000
"The Best Energy Policy Is No Energy Policy," The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2000
"In Politics, Money Can't Buy You Love," Cato.org, March 3, 2000
"George Bush's Crude Approach to Energy Policy," Cato.org, January 29, 2000
"Iowa: The Graveyard of the GOP," Cato.org, January 8, 2000
"Dear Governor Gilmore: A Plan to End Gridlock," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato.org, August 28, 1999
"Appeasing the Corn God," Cato.org, August 23, 1999
"Drought? Brownouts? Blame Government!," Cato.org, August 9, 1999
"The Greening of the GOP," Cato.org, April 16, 1999
"Do Farmers Have a Right to Pollute?," Charlotte Observer, April 11, 1999
"Separation of Powers, R.I.P.," Cato.org, March 19, 1999
"Gore for President?," Cato.org, February 3, 1999
"The State of the World: Doom or Boom?," Manchester Union-Leader, January 27, 1999
"The State of the World: Doom or Boom?," Cato.org, January 26, 1999
"Global Warming: The Scorecard Thus Far," Cato.org, December 3, 1998
"Oil Is No Reason to Stay in the Persian Gulf," Cato.org, August 27, 1998
"Lights Out on Electric Restructuring?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 1998
"Hot Air in Kyoto," Cato.org, December 8, 1997
"Kyoto Oracle's Faithful Herd," Washington Times, December 5, 1997
"Food Fight? Actually, Regulation is the Problem," Cato.org, September 21, 1997
"The Heated Rhetoric of Global Warming," Cato.org, September 15, 1997
"Climate, Technology and Trepidation: Misleading Rhetoric," Washington Times, August 29, 1997
"Government by Fiat: The Presidency Running Riot," Cato.org, July 22, 1997
"Minimum Content: Minimum Sense," Cato.org, April 25, 1997
"Just Say No To "Managed Competition"," Cato.org, April 2, 1997
"FDA Actions Threaten Civil Liberties," USA Today, February 14, 1997
"High-Voltage Swindle: Why Electricty Restructuring Could Electrocute Ratepayers," Cato.org, February 6, 1997
"High-Voltage Swindle: Why Electricty Restructuring Could Electrocute Ratepayers," Cato.org, February 6, 1997
"A Freer Market for Electricity Would Lower Energy Costs, Half Measures Fall Short," Cato.org, February 2, 1997
"Deregulation or Managed Competition?," Cato.org, January 15, 1997
"The Green Emperor Has No Clothes," Washington Times, December 24, 1996
"The Pickpocket State vs. Tobacco," Cato.org, September 30, 1996
"Clinton's Tobacco War: How High the Constitutional Price?," Cato.org, August 30, 1996
"GOP has a New Newt," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 24, 1994
"Pesticide Danger? The Kids Are All Right," The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 1993
"Bush's Task: Turn Out Lights On Energy Bill," The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 1992
"Beware of Eco-Treaties," USA Today, May 29, 1992
"Species Law is Useless," USA Today, May 14, 1992
"Recycling is Not the Answer," Roll Call, February 24, 1992
"Energy Bill's Nemesis?," Washington Times, December 24, 1991
"Federal Rules Not Needed," USA Today, September 12, 1991
"Bossy States Censor Green Ads," The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 1991
"Smaller Cars Can Save Fuel But Cost Lives," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 19, 1991
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