Andrew P. Morriss

Andrew P. Morriss is the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business Professor at the University of Illinois. Readers may write him at the Institute for Government and Public Affairs, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign, IL, 61820, or e-mail him morriss at law.uiuc.edu

Most Recent Articles by Andrew P. Morriss:

Clamor for climate change legislation foolish with Chinese, Indian economies at full-throttle December 6, 2013
Since energy touches every aspect of our lives, this is a subject that requires careful consideration and extended debate
Billed as a swipe at Wall Street, it really socks it to retirees and small businesses March 15, 2013
The latest bad idea to capture politicians’ attention
Ethanol scam drives up food prices and stifles economic recovery January 10, 2013
It is long past time to get the ethanol lobby’s hand out of our wallets
Autocratic EPA foolishly seeks to destroy nation’s vital coal industry August 3, 2012
New regulations imposed by the Obama Administration will lead to the closing of 40 gigawatts of electric generation capacity.
An energy policy that shuns Canadian oil will push America’s best ally into the arms of China June 8, 2012
‘Defriending’ Canada on energy is not in our national interest — militarily, economically, or environmentally.
More “bad-food” taxes by do-gooders will clog our economic arteries beyond repair May 10, 2012
Nanny Staters promise the sun, moon and stars to get new taxes on the books, but deliver little else.
Obama’s “green energy” policies won’t work unless pump prices are rocketing upward! February 2, 2012
“No drill America” energy policy is a road map for higher energy prices.
Obama’s desire to appease greens throws America’s blue-collar workers under the Keystone bus November 23, 2011
Keystone Canada-U.S. pipeline, Obama killing jobs
Nobel-Prize winner Chu deserves a booby prize for his naïveté in running the Energy Depart November 14, 2011
Solyndra connections of Obama donor George Kaiser and his George Kaiser Family Foundation
Natural gas provides a third of our energy needs and “fracking” has EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s seal of July 20, 2011
Over the past few years, U.S. and world natural gas reserves have soared
U.S. can’t afford to scrap nuclear power, must mandate tough safety rules, end taxpayer subsidies April 15, 2011
For the foreseeable future, the demand for electricity in the United States and elsewhere is going to be met by a combination of nuclear, coal, and natural gas
With $6 per gallon gas looming, it’s time to unlock all of America’s vast resources March 10, 2011
We need to start exploring and developing our domestic oil and gas resources now
Far making us safer, TSA’s x-rays and pat-downs are dangerous to passengers and democracy alik January 28, 2011
X-ray exposure, Security, Radiation
Obama’s long period of indifference to spill amounts to a toxic show of incompetence June 22, 2010
It isn’t unreasonable to expect that long before the sixty-day mark he would have convened the heads of major oil companies, university petroleum engineering departments
The epa prodded by ethanol lobbyists, wants to put a time bomb in americas gas tanks November 12, 2009
Blend of ethanol and gasoline known as “E15”