Jon Sanders

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Jon Sanders is an economist and the director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he also serves as research editor. The center focuses on protecting and expanding freedom in the vital areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment.

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Dark Matter and the Swimming Pool App

"DHHS wants to regulate pool rentals without going through the process of formal rulemaking. So the agency releases a guidance document telling impressionable county officials and homeowners that, as far…

Dark Matter and the Swimming Pool App

Hospitalized With, or Hospitalized For?

"It has been three years. Isn’t it about time we got more accurate data on COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths?" ~ Jon Sanders

Hospitalized With, or Hospitalized For?

The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation

"The distinction between correlation and causation is not important to those who want to expand governmental power. An aggressive bureaucracy needs only an affectation of justification for a regulation or…

The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation

Take Your Foot off the Gas

"If environmental zealots in the Biden administration were to get their way, then something would have to answer the call for such a huge increase in electricity demand. Do they…

Take Your Foot off the Gas

The New-Normaling of Blackouts

"Before, rolling blackouts were a California problem, then they also became a Texas problem. Blackouts are spreading faster than even Imperial College London modelers would find believable." ~ Jon Sanders

The New-Normaling of Blackouts

Reddy or Not, Winter Is Coming

"Any time, but especially in the depths of the cold, electricity consumers must still be able to count on electricity 'always there/with lots of power to spare' as they have…

Reddy or Not, Winter Is Coming

Salute to the Sensible

"If we are going to accomplish Oster’s 'work together to build back and move forward,' it’s imperative to acknowledge and address the wrongs done that tore everything down and everyone…

Salute to the Sensible

Europe Needs American Energy, Not Fake Kryptonite

"A greater available supply of American natural gas and oil to European nations would reduce their dependence on Russian supplies. Americans would also enjoy lower oil and gas prices, more…

Europe Needs American Energy, Not Fake Kryptonite

Biden’s Impoverishing Americans To Cut Emissions Won’t Even Touch Climate Change

"Americans have been cutting more emissions than any other nation. We just didn’t do it the 'right' way, through government mandates. For our reward, we’ve been sold into worse inflation,…

Biden’s Impoverishing Americans To Cut Emissions Won’t Even Touch Climate Change

Which Lasts Longer, Spike Proteins or CDC ‘Facts?’

"The constant churn of revisions leaves us with many questions, when the whole point of producing a page entitled 'Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines' was to prevent such a thing. They…

Which Lasts Longer, Spike Proteins or CDC ‘Facts?’