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Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy: Articles

February 15, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Washington's Knack for Picking Losers

by Michael J. Boskin (Senior Fellow; member of the Task Force on Energy Policy; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy)
Former Obama adviser Larry Summers warned the administration against federal loan guarantees to Solyndra, writing in a 2009 email that 'the government is a crappy venture capitalist'...
May 15, 2011 | Becker-Posner Blog
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Subsidies to Oil and Other Energy Sources

by Gary S. Becker (Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow; member of the Working Group on Economic Policy; and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy)
President Obama and members of Congress are calling for a sharp reduction in the substantial direct subsidies to American oil companies...
April 6, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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The Flexible Fuel Answer to OPEC

by James Woolsey (member of the Task Force on Energy Policy) and Anne Korin
It costs an extra $100 to enable a car to run on biofuels or natural gas. Washington should mandate the tweak...
March 25, 2011 | Green (New York Times)
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Group That Beat Back Proposition 23 Is Reborn

George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) is featured
March 18, 2011 | San Jose Mercury News
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Mercury News interview: George Shultz, former secretary of state, now Stanford fellow

George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) is featured
George P. Shultz is an economist, businessman, statesman and Republican Party strategist who is probably best known as secretary of state during the Reagan administration...
February 16, 2011 | San Jose Mercury News
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Now is the time to invest in ending California's oil addiction

by James L. Sweeney (member of the Task Force on Energy Policy) and Sven Strohband
Oil price volatility will take a toll on California until we diversify energy supplies and reduce oil demand. The time has come for us to end our addiction to imported oil...
November 18, 2010
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Clean energy moves forward—and California leads the way

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on clean energy
October 11, 2010 | Stanford Review
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Stanford’s Shultz Says No to Prop 23

George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) is featured
October 8, 2010 | Bloomberg Businessweek
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Calif. initiative a test for national climate law

George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) is quoted
September 15, 2010 | KGO-TV (San Francisco)
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Conservative states rally against Calif.'s Prop 23

George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) is interviewed
In an exclusive interview with ABC7 George Shultz explained why he's co-chair of the no on prop 23 campaign...