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Boutique Gas Prevents Competition

Friday, June 1st, 2007 by Xander Zebrose

Time.com has an interesting article on ’boutique gas’. Starting in the ’90s state and federal rules have mandated certain environmental regulations on gas sold only in specific regions or metropolitan areas. This reduces the competitiveness of the gas market by breaking the national market into many smaller markets that each have their own barriers to [...]

Al Gore’s Vulcan Utopia

Friday, June 1st, 2007 by Xander Zebrose

David Brooks has written a fine piece on Al Gore’s strange world view. He writes that
“Gore seems to have come up with a theory that the upper, logical mind sits on top of, and should master, the primitive and more emotional mind below. He thinks this can be done through a technical process that [...]

Congressional Democrats Want To Hold Employers Hostage

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 by Xander Zebrose

Ted, Hillary and their Democratic friends in Congress are pushing for a bill that will allow employees to sue based on pay discrimination indefinitely. Recently the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision rejected a claim of pay discrimination made by a woman who had started working in 1979. They ruled that employees need to sue [...]

Clinton Opposes Ownership Society

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 by Xander Zebrose

On Tuesday Hillary Clinton, in a speech in New Hampshire, came out against Bush’s ‘ownership society’.
“it’s time to replace an ‘on your own’ society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity. The Democratic presidential hopeful said what the Bush administration touts as an ‘ownership society’ really is an “on your own” society [...]