Robert Bradley
Nuclear Power Needs Realism, Freedom
Decades of subsidies, regulation, and unmet promises have left nuclear power costly and uncompetitive.
Nuclear Power: A Free Market Approach
Nuclear energy is a source of clean, dependable power. It is the only carbon-free energy source that can reliably deliver power day and night on a large scale. But its…
Free Market Electricity: A Primer
Free-market electricity rests on time-honored theoretical and evidential foundations. Yet the classical-liberal alternative to heavy-handed regulation has been ignored for more than a century.
The Embargo at 50: Regulatory Causality vs. Anti-Oil Narrative
"What was obvious then should be more obvious today: Energy crises are governmental. Market challenges and solutions are entirely different from full-blown emergencies." ~Robert L. Bradley
Warm-Mongers vs. Classical Liberals
"Classical liberalism can stand proud on the climate issue—and offers the first-best policy of do no harm." ~ Robert Bradley
Is Biomass “Green” Energy?
"Level field, no favor is a pro-consumer, taxpayer-neutral approach to energy policy. Voluntary transactions between consenting adults within a rule-of-law framework can be expected to arrive at efficient solutions." ~…
Old Oil Ads Were Reasonable on Climate Change
"An impartial reading of them reveals rational commentary on the knowns and unknowns of energy and climate. The ads are hardly controversial." ~ Robert L. Bradley Jr. & Richard Fulmer
Energy Infamy: Nixon’s 1971 Price Controls Turn 50
"The 1970s stand as one of most grievous eras in the history of energy, and public policy in general. And it happened as a byproduct of a seemingly innocuous, temporary…
Climate Models: Worse Than Nothing?
"Data continue to confound naïve climate models. Very difficult theory is slowly but surely explaining why. The climate debate is back to the physical science, where it never should have…
Climate, CO2 Optimism
"Climate alarmism, never proven, is speculative—and increasingly so. Climate models are overpredicting real-world warming by half. For climate economists, lower-range anthropogenic warming flips the alleged externality from negative to positive.…
