Another reason to end ethanol subsidies and mandates: they spur inflation
The federal government’s years-long love affair with ethanol has cost taxpayers and drivers billions of dollars, while utterly failing to curb the nation’s oil consumption. Later, ethanol was touted as…
Buttigieg doesn’t understand there’s no such thing as a free lunch
Transportation Secretary, and early media presidential favorite Pete Buttigieg is all-in on the administration’s electric vehicle push. That’s not a secret. But the tyro cabinet official runs into a host…
The government child care “disaster”
One of the original planks in the president’s Titanic-sized Build Back Better proposal was to get government directly, and deeply, involved in providing child care. On the surface, it seemed…
House proposes a big green subsidy for airlines
The House of Representatives is still haggling over what to include in its version of an infrastructure bill, and some interest groups will undoubtedly be disappointed. Airlines, however, won’t be…
