![]() |
A new study this week estimated that North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (RPS) has increased electricity costs by $276 million, and that the bulk of those costs are concentrated on commercial electricity consumers and residential consumers...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
North Carolina's law mandating electric utilities to increase their use of renewable energy sources has caused the loss of nearly 24,000 jobs, $14.4 billion in forgone personal income, and will boost ratepayers' annual bills by $149 million.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Gas prices fell below $2.00 a gallon in much of state this month, providing North Carolinians with some extra cash in their pockets to pay off those Christmas credit card bills.
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
![]() |
New rules by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposing unprecedented restrictions on electric power plants will drive up energy bills and cost North Carolina tens of thousands of jobs, according to a study conducted by the Beacon Hill Institute of Suffolk University and released by the Civi
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
|
![]() |
There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has been running hard for reelection for more than a year.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Taxpayers in every income category will save tens of millions of dollars because of state tax reforms enacted in North Carolina in 2013.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reform is once again under attack, and once again the critics are using misleading claims and false narratives to deceive the public.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
![]() |
Taxpayers in every income category will save tens of millions of dollars because of state tax reforms enacted in North Carolina in 2013.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Affluent North Carolina residents who put solar panels on their rooftops are being subsidized by lower-income customers because of the state's renewable energy subsidies and regulations, the president of Duke Energy North Carolina told a legislative panel Tuesday.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Internal Republican Party politics ignited by House Speaker Thom Tillis' pending departure and a philosophical battle between moderates and conservatives...
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 @ 6:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
A contentious Senate committee hearing Wednesday on a bill to phase out multimillion-dollar state tax subsidies to select renewable energy
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Local media consumers may have picked up a bit of trivia lately: North Carolina's new governor isn't a Democrat. This break from The Way Things Are Done 'Round Here has led to...
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
After two hours of discussion and comment earlier this afternoon, a measure freezing the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard squeaked through a House Commerce subcommittee...
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 1:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
According to a self-serving report paid for by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, $72 million in government subsidies received by...
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
A recent report "claims a great deal, but offers nothing of substance" as it touts thousands of new jobs and other economic benefits linked to North Carolina taxpayers' subsidies for renewable energy. That's the bottom-line conclusion in a new economic analysis prepared for the John Locke Foundation
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 2:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Economic researchers say a study claiming more than 20,000 job-years were created in North Carolina as a result of legislation mandating the purchase of renewable energy likely exaggerates that outcome while downplaying job losses resulting from that mandate.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 12:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Sometimes, despite good intentions, we just get things wrong. That's what happened in 2007, when the North Carolina legislature enacted a bill to force electric utilities to buy "renewable" power from wind, solar, and other expensive and unreliable sources.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
There is one talking point that has become the go-to objection to eliminating North Carolina's state income taxes and replacing the revenue by expanding the sales tax: "This will shift the tax burden from the rich and onto the backs of the poor!"
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
![]() |
As you may know, the John Locke Foundation has just published a new book - First in Freedom: Transforming Ideas into Consequences for North Carolina - that proposes a new tax system for our state.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Replacing North Carolina's existing income, corporate, sales, and estate taxes with a new consumed-income tax dubbed the USA Tax could generate 80,500 new jobs in the first year, while boosting the state's economy by $11.76 billion.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
Today, Governor Pat McCrory announced the following additions to the governor's office staff.
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
![]() |
Today, Governor-Elect Pat McCrory announced the following members of his transition team.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 7:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
![]() |
List of resource links.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
![]() |
In 2007 the North Carolina General Assembly passed far-reaching electricity regulations, typically referred to as Senate Bill 3. At the heart of this bill is a 12.5 percent "renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard."
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|