Tankosphere Today: Sept. 3, 2008

Todd Thurman / September 03, 2008

• Gee, It’s a Bummer When You Cope with High Gas Prices So Well – Government Bytes

Peder Jensen, a “transportation expert” for the EU’s European Environment Agency in Copenhagen had this to say about stubborn motorists who insist on driving even with high fuel prices…

• Company Can’t Test for Mad Cow, Bureaucrats & Courts Say – OpenMarket.org

Earlier, I and Alex Harris criticized the Agriculture Department for banning a company from testing for mad cow disease. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has now upheld that ban. Law Professor Jonathan Adler…

• Opposing Viewpoints on Network Neutrality – The Technology Liberation Front

I contributed the Cato institute’s side in this debate at Opposing Viewpoints. I took the “no” position to the question “Should the Government Regulate Net Neutrality?”…

• California Tobacco Control Program Wants More Money – Pacific Research Institute

But Can Higher Taxes Really Eliminate Smoking Within 5 Years? I have spent (undoubtedly too much) time today struggling with a new article from the tobacconistas at the University of California, San Francisco’s…