Energy

Allaying public fears of a potential energy shortage leading to a downfall of the economy, energy consultant Paul Ballonoff maintains that energy is a manufactured product. Ballanoff claims energy is no different from any other commodity, which will be produced as needed--and the best federal policy is no energy policy at all.

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Government regulates the energy industry far more intensely than it does other sectors of the economy. Economist Paul Ballonoff, a former utility rate regulator in Kansas and Illinois, argues that the case for special regulation of energy is based on myths that serve only to fatten special-interest groups at the expense of energy consumers. In Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis, Ballonoff dismantles the arguments for energy regulation, accuses energy regulation of causing - not remedying - the various diseases it attempts to cure, and makes the case for fully returning control of the energy sector of the economy to market forces.