Benjamin Zycher

Benjamin Zycher is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

The Disastrous Potential of The EPA’s Proposed Rule for Model Year 2027

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Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Rule on “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” Summary The benefit/cost analysis published by the Environmental Protection Agency in its proposed rule “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” is fatally flawed; accordingly, the proposed […]

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Proposals For a Windfall Profits Tax Are Damaging Even If Never Enacted

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In the wake of the midterm election results, President Biden has made it clear that “I’m not going to change,” in particular with respect to his view that “the oil companies are really doing the nation a real disservice.”  Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Accordingly, it is easy to predict a continuation of the incoherence of the Biden stance toward conventional

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Joe Biden’s Ad Hoc Use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Notwithstanding vociferous criticism of the politicized use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by the Biden administration, such drawdowns have been employed for decades by Democratic and Republican administrations alike as an ad hoc and futile response to short-run increases in fuel prices.  Unlike the case for all previous administrations, which viewed the domestic production of fossil fuels as a positive or at least necessary objective, the major difference

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