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  • Finally some outrage over the New Energy Economy0

    • December 30, 2011

    I may have underestimated the outrage over two recent Xcel Energy rate increase requests. The first, an attempt to recover the final $16.5 million in cost for Boulder’s Smart Grid City program. Ratepayers are not thrilled about paying for a Boulder project with massive cost overruns. Check out these comments: From Phil Carson, editor of

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  • PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” once again not a lie0

    • December 30, 2011

    PolitiFact’s past three Lies of the Year have been about health care. Not one of them was a lie. … Moreover, even if these three statements were false, the speakers believed them to be true. Therefore, they cannot be lies. Every single Lie of the Year award has gotten that basic fact wrong. Continue reading

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  • 2011: A Very Good Year0

    • December 29, 2011

    This past year has been very good for antiplanners. In February, the Antiplanner had an op ed in National Review opposing high-speed rail that summarized years of research on the subject. The Antiplanner also argued that Florida was the linch pin of President Obama’s planned national high-speed rail system. Just a week after the National […]

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  • The left segregates the poor into inferior socialist programs while others enjoy semi-free markets0

    • December 28, 2011

    The left’s entire approach to poverty is to segregate the poor into inferior public provision, while the rest of society enjoys the benefits of quasi-private provision. It’s as though the left wing in American politics wants socialism for the poor and capitalism for everyone else. Continue reading

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  • An 89.5 percent increase since 20040

    • December 27, 2011

    Ho hum, Xcel Energy wants another $142 million rate increase, and it wants to recover another $16.5 million for its Boulder smart grid project. And in other news, dog bites man. If the Public Utilities Commission denied the rate increases, that would be a news story. This is all part of Colorado’s New Energy Economy.

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  • 30 percent higher average electric rates in states with RPS0

    • December 27, 2011

    The average residential electric rate in states with a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is nearly 30 percent higher than states without an RPS. An RPS is a state based policy that requires electric power “providers to supply a specified minimum amount of customer load with electricity from eligible renewable energy sources,” such as wind or

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