“Network” industries such as electricity, air transport, telecommunication, freight rail, and internet services face a challenge with their competing flow and grid components.  Flows are the power, messaging, trains, airplanes and travelers; grids are the lines, tracks, airports and highways are the grids.

The operating and investment decisions of the flow and grid are best coordinated closely.  For example, the decision to expand railways depends on profitability and sufficient additional freight traffic.  The addition of new high-capacity DC electrical grid components…

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Word has it that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade/energy tax bill is finally hitting the floor of the House, probably this Friday. CEI is decidedly in the “anti” camp. To that end, we released a statement this morning by Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the legislation and its potential impacts:

Waxman-Markey is a 1,201-page economic suicide note. Those Members of the House who vote for it are voting for long-term economic decline and for turning the United States into a second-rate…

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