The Baltimore Sun reported recently that in June 2008 BGE’s residential electric rates in Maryland will increase by 5.5%. This will make rates 82% higher than in May 2006. Relief is unlikely anytime soon. What’s behind these increases? Demand vs. supply The simplest economic explanation would be an increase in demand for electric power beyond ...
Reagan, had he lived, would be 100 on Sunday, February 6. Many festivities are planned for celebration, including one to be memorialized by Sarah Palin, who wishes to fall heir to the Republican throne in 2012, but contributions aside, in the balance Reagan’s era can be said to have ushered in problems we are facing ...
The deregulation of electricity in New York City has resulted in giving the ability of other energy providers to step into the arena and to be able to provide former Con Edison customers with electricity at lower rates. One web site to visit for more information is at: http://newyorkelectric.ambitenergy.biz Anyone who decides to, can switch ...
In order to be a multimillionaire, you have to start with the thought that you are already a multimillionaire. Before you go to bed and when you wake in the morning tell yourself, I am a multimillionaire! Next, work on your dream and bring it into reality! You have to believe that you are a ...
Soaring fuel cost may give the airline industry its much needed justification for excuses concerning wage inequality. Factors of production directly influence an industry’s ability to hire and pay workers. However, Card (1996) and Jones (1998) show that wage inequality has existed ever since the deregulation of the airline industries in the late 1970s. The ...
