Bipartisan Energy Policy: The Solution or the Problem?
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Bipartisan Energy Policy: The Solution or the Problem?
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Over the last six years, President Obama has applauded the boom in U.S. oil and natural gas output while simultaneously launching a barrage of costly mandates and subsidies meant to end the fossil fuel era. Now the president faces a Republican Congress for his final years in office.
Will the 114th Congress bring meaningful compromise on energy reform? Peter Grossman, Butler University economics professor and author of U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure, contends that bipartisan compromise is possible and has led to policy change in the past. However, that change has almost always been bad for the country.
Bipartisanship, Professor Grossman notes, has given us ill-conceived and wasteful programs for synthetic fuels, breeder reactors, “super cars,” windmills, and ethanol. Professor Grossman believes that the problem runs much deeper than the current president or balance of parties in Congress. He argues U.S. energy policy has been premised on false concepts of markets, government, technology, and history for the past forty years.
Hudson Institute will host a debate on the feasibility of bipartisan energy policy in the 114th Congress and the likely paths forward. Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow Lee Lane will moderate a panel with Professor Grossman featuring Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Christopher DeMuth and NERA Economic Consulting Senior Vice President W. David Montgomery.
Panel:
- Lee Lane - Moderator, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute
- Peter Grossman - Speaker, Professor, Butler University and Author, U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure
- Christopher DeMuth - Speaker, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute
- W. David Montgomery - Speaker, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
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