tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post9001829766210902959..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Energy Lobbying, Environmental Costs, and Zero-Sum CompetitionDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-88959558251392086782015-03-01T19:27:18.969-08:002015-03-01T19:27:18.969-08:00David,
A cost controlled monopoly (or industry) ha...David,<br />A cost controlled monopoly (or industry) has a good reason wish for higher costs (insurance, energy for example). Their profits are limited by law to a percentage of gross. If over all costs go up, the money they can skim off goes up too. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837999838469082203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-8450475108575805172015-02-24T06:32:18.371-08:002015-02-24T06:32:18.371-08:00Wikipedia reports that Excelon operates 17 nuclear...Wikipedia reports that Excelon operates 17 nuclear reactors, and relatively few coal plants. According to Wikipedia,<br /><br /><i>Exelon's Political Action Committee (PAC) is EXELONPAC.[21] The company is positioned to profit from "expensive carbon" and has been lobbying for cap and trade of carbon dioxide emissions.[22] "Exelon CEO John Rowe is a vociferous and longtime advocate of climate change legislation. In 2009, Forbes reported that if the Waxman-Markey climate legislation became law, 'the present value of Exelon's earnings stream would increase by $14 a share, or 28%.'"[12] Executives at the company have close ties to the Obama administration as advisors and fundraisers.[22] Exelon also disclosed multiple contributions to political nonprofit organizations, the largest of which was $290,000 given to the American Energy Alliance — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit with ties to the conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and led by former Koch Industries lobbyist Thomas Pyle.</i>EWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704258203202907249noreply@blogger.com