Real Estate & Property Law

Alternative Energy Exploration

By Alan Ackerman

Heartland Institute

-This is an intriguing article. It questions the propriety of government tax benefits to the energy 'developer'. The problem is one of wobbly matched pairs. We have subsidized oil and gas exploration for over sixty years.

What is the big surprise here? Maybe, just maybe, because we feel the system allows the 'big guys' to get away with a lot more, putting us in an inferior position. No, I am not turning left or right, it is just this writer looked at where home town favorites are moving in a downward spiral, all the while not receiving the same help as Boone.   

Billionaire financier T. Boone Pickens’ campaign for government subsidies to wind power, advertised in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and subsequently in an op-ed piece in the same, seems erroneous in several respects.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).