When last we visited the topic of Nigerian energy markets and happenings, the reason that Nigeria simultaneously is energy-rich and energy-poor was illustrated by the ongoing tug of war between the Nigerian…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 30, 2019
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to meddle in energy markets. The latest tangle began when the federal government and a large number of state…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 25, 2019
Natural resources are an important component of national wealth, and the efficient allocation and use of those resources is an economic process yielding enormous benefits for ordinary people. Also axiomatic…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 28, 2019
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade promises to continue the large economic benefits of the earlier North American Free Trade Agreement, but one threat to those benefits has emerged in the…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 23, 2019
Hope springs eternal, a human inclination affecting romance, dieting, new year’s resolutions, and a good deal more. International investing is prominent among the activities often influenced by a hope that…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 2, 2018
The latest lawsuit against ExxonMobil (EM), filed by Acting New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood, is straightforward: Got that? Underwood actually is arguing that EM should not concern itself…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 29, 2018
In an effort to deal with the market and non-market forces inflicting economic losses on coal- and nuclear-power plants, the Trump administration is seeking through regulation to force state and regional grid…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 15, 2018
My AEI colleague Mark J. Perry has written a short essay arguing that “Trump’s Energy Policy Is Deeply Flawed,” the central themes of which are: These arguments are rather uncharacteristic of…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 25, 2018
Environmental policy as a tool of wealth redistribution is nothing new. The latest example is a proposal for a greenhouse-gas (GHG) tax just introduced by Representative Carlos Curbelo (R., Fla.).…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 23, 2018
Demand and supply. Supply and demand. That fundamental analytic framework, simple and powerful as a tool with which to examine the sources of shifts in market prices, often is forgotten…
By Benjamin Zycher | June 21, 2018
I betray no secret when I report that reverence for the silliness embodied in conventional wisdom is a central characteristic of policy debates in the Beltway. No amount of evidence,…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 18, 2018
Earth Day is upon us yet again, and it is difficult not to notice its transformation into a vehicle for corporate virtue signaling: Full-page ads in national and local print…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 20, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that it and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would reinstitute the mid-term evaluation of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards — the fuel-economy rules — for…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 4, 2018
For years Congress has refused to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and now the Trump administration is rolling back the Obama regulations. What are politically-ambitious blue-state politicians to do?…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 6, 2018
Let us now recall the blessed memory of Godzilla, King of the Monsters. I know him as Zilly, as we have grown close over the years and the 30-plus movies that bear his…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 1, 2018