The Bottomless Well: No Need To Curb Energy Consumption

by James Glassman | May 19, 2005

There's no public-policy topic more prone to intellectual abuse than energy. Take conservation. Refrigerators, automobiles, houses, factories

There’s no public-policy topic more prone to intellectual abuse than energy.

Take conservation. Refrigerators, automobiles, houses, factories

Ambassador Glassman has had a long career in media. He was host of three weekly public-affairs programs, editor-in-chief and co-owner of Roll Call, the congressional newspaper, and publisher of the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic. For 11 years, he was both an investment and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.

The views represent those of the author and not necessarily those of Capitalism Magazine.

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