According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), if one includes all the capital, operating and fuel costs, electricity from wind still costs about 50 per cent more than conventional coal and 100 per cent more than natural gas, says Ronald Bailey, science correspondent with Reason Magazine.
Proponents
Take the government’s proposed Renewable Heat Incentive, the costs of which could, by 2030, outweigh its benefits by as much as £13 billion ($20 billion).
The hope is that by 2020, Britain will have installed two million “heat pumps” to extract warmth from the air and soil.
But a taxpayer-funded
Most Americans are shielded from the full cost of health care and have little or no incentive to compare prices or choose lower cost providers, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.
However, as patients take on a growing portion of their health care costs,
A “paycheck fairness” bill under consideration in the US Senate would make it easier for women to file class-action, punitive-damages suits against employers they accuse of sex-based pay discrimination.
But the bill isn’t as commonsensical as it might seem. It overlooks mountains of research showing that discrimination plays little role in
When President Obama’s administration officials were selling the idea of a huge federal stimulus program to buoy the U.S. economy, they talked about a plan that would get money into the economy quickly. Instead, spending stimulus dollars fast has turned out to be surprisingly hard, says the Wall Street Journal.
The
