“Those of us who believe in the power markets to do good must also believe in the power of markets to reduce harms – including the harms of pollution and climate change. That work of market-driven harm-reduction is being done right here.”
“One need not take a side in the debate regarding manmade global warming in order to support improvements in US energy policy. Instead, by eliminating subsidies for all fuel types and making all fuel types accountable for their costs, free enterprise will make clear the best fuels for our future. Reduce taxes on something we want more of–income–and tax something we arguably want less of–carbon pollution. It’s a win-win.”
“Economists have long understood that the key to smart environmental policy is aligning private incentives with true social costs and benefits. That means putting a price on carbon emissions, so households and firms will have good reason to reduce their use of fossil fuels and to develop alternative energy sources.”
“The Apostle Paul says in Romans 1 that the Creation itself reflects God’s eternal power and divine nature. Good science searches the order of that Creation; faith informs our response to that data. Bob Inglis tells me that the Energy and Enterprise Initiative will be a place of science that understands man cannot live by data alone, but also by awe, wonder, and action. That’s a good objective.”
“Science is neither conservative nor liberal; it’s evidence-driven. Scientists, including those of us who are politically conservative, hope for an early end to the populist rejection of science and a return to evidence-driven scientific inquiry. Conservatives have a critical role to play in meeting the challenges posed by changing climate, and the Energy and Enterprise Initiative provides a vehicle for them to do so.”
“Insurers and reinsurers take all kinds of risks into account. E&EI is calling conservatives to consider those risks, and it’s equipping conservatives to confront those risks with free enterprise solutions.”
“We should make all forms of energy bear their full costs. Many forms of energy produce side effects, like pollution, that are a cost to society. The producers don’t bear those costs; society does. There has to be a way to level the playing field and cause those forms of energy to bear their true costs.”
20th May 2013 | Categories: Featured Articles, In the News, News
This American Life, a show that airs nationwide on NPR affiliates around the country, profiled E&EI and executive director Bob Inglis’ work to move conservatives on the issue of climate change. Producer and reporter Ben Calhoun tells the story of the former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, Bob Inglis.
15th May 2013 | Categories: Featured Articles, In the News, News
If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?
Most insurers, including the reinsurance companies that bear much of the ultimate risk in the industry, have little time for the arguments heard in some right-wing circles that climate change isn’t happening, and are quite comfortable with the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the main culprit of global warming.
10th May 2013 | Categories: Featured Articles, In the News, News
Today, Republicans point to the former House member from South Carolina Bob Inglis, as the textbook tale of what happens when a red-state conservative dares to acknowledge climate change. Inglis, who left Congress in 2011, recalls the challenge his son, Rob, threw down to him a decade ago before he was to vote in his first election. He said, “I’ll vote for you, Dad, but you’ve got to clean up your act on the environment.’ ”
