EMBRACING A FREE-MARKET ENERGY FUTURE

June 25, 2018 § The Sutton Place Hotel § Vancouver, Canada

Sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and the Pacific Research Institute

Welcome to the Policy Research Seminar on Embracing a Free-Market Energy

Future, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George

Mason University and the Pacific Research Institute.

It is a pleasure to have you here with us! IHS recognizes the scholarly impact

and practical application your work has on our understanding of a free society,

and we are eager for you to join the conversation regarding energy policy. We

anticipate many active and collaborative discussions taking place during our time

together, and we hope you will share insights and knowledge based on your own

research and experiences with us throughout the day.

IHS Policy Research Seminars seek to facilitate scholarly collaboration among

faculty, graduate students, policy experts, and our own staff in attendance. We

encourage you to connect with the other scholars attending our program, as

your similar research interests are one of the many reasons we invited you here

today. Our experience suggests some of the most impactful connections are

made during meals and receptions, so please plan to attend all scheduled events.

Thank you so much for sharing your time with us. We look forward to meeting

each of you over the course of the seminar, and we hope your attendance here

leads to future partnership with IHS and other scholars as we work toward a freer

and more prosperous world together.

Sincerely,

Ashley DonohueAcademic Talent Development, Director Institute for Humane Studies

The mission of the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is to champion freedom, opportunity, and personal

responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions. Since its founding in 1979,

PRI has remained steadfast to the vision of a free and civil society where individuals can achieve their

full potential. Put simply, public policy is too important to be left just to the experts. Individuals are

the real decision makers when it comes to their schools, health care, and environment. PRI reinforces

this ideal by providing you with the information, inspiration, and opportunity to make decisions about

the daily issues that matter most to you. The Institute’s activities include publications, events, media

commentary, legislative testimony, and community outreach.

Founded in 1961 by Dr. F.A. “Baldy” Harper, the Institute for Humane Studies is the leading institute

in higher education dedicated to championing classical liberal ideas and the scholars who advance

them. Specifically, we facilitate the impact of the academic community both on and beyond college

campuses—partnering with faculty to connect with students through campus programs, connecting

scholars to opportunities to further their careers both inside and outside of the academy, and offering

current and aspiring professors access to the foremost community of scholars working within the

classical liberal tradition.

IHS Policy Research SeminarsIHS Policy Research Seminars seek to bridge the gap between academia and policy by

encouraging the use of academic research to influence policy change. Seminars give an

audience of advanced graduate students, policy experts, and faculty the chance to connect with

like-minded individuals and help to facilitate connections with our partner organizations with

the goal of producing future research, speaking, and publishing opportunities.

EMBRACING A FREE-MARKET ENERGY FUTUREDuring this half-day seminar, scholars and policy experts will discuss how, in practice, government

“green energy” policy threatens people’s individual freedom, private property rights, and economic

livelihood. A keynote address and two mixed panels of academics and policy analysts will explore how

the free-market is a more effective way to achieve a global, clean energy future than the new clean

energy laws or excess regulations. This event is co-sponsored with the Pacific Research Institute and

immediately precedes the Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting Conference in

Vancouver, BC, Canada.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

2:30–3:00 pm | RegistrationLe Versailles Salon Foyer

3:00–3:15 pm | Welcome and Seminar Introduction Le Versailles Salon B Ashley Donohue, Institute for Humane Studies

Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute

3:15–4:00 pm | Keynote AddressLe Versailles Salon B Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College

4:00–4:15 pm | Coffee Break & Refreshments Le Versailles Salon Foyer

4:15–5:30 pm | Panel I: Should the Government Subsidize Clean Tech? Le Versailles Salon B Moderator: Wayne Winegarden, Pacific Research Institute Nick Loris, Heritage Foundation Mark Milke, Canadians with Affordable Energy

Roger Meiners, University of Texas at Arlington

5:30–5:45 pm | Coffee Break Le Versailles Salon Foyer

5:45–7:00 pm | Panel II: Powering the Future through the Free-Market Le Versailles Salon Foyer Moderator: Wayne Winegarden, Pacific Research Institute Arthur Wardle, Center for Growth & Opportunity at Utah State University Sabrina Lockhart, California Independent Petroleum Association Marlo Lewis, Competitive Enterprise Institute

7:00–7:15 pm | Opportunities at the Institute for Humane Studies Le Versailles Salon B Ashley Donohue, Institute for Humane Studies

7:15–8:15 pm | DinnerChateau Lafite

8:15–10:15 pm | Reception2nd Floor Foyer

Monday, June 25

SPEAKER BIOS

MARLO LEWISSENIOR FELLOW MARLO.LEWIS@CEI.ORG

Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Lewis writes on

global warming, energy policy, and public policy issues. Marlo has been published in

The Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, TechCentralStation, National Review, and

Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has appeared on various television and radio programs, and his

ideas have been featured in radio commentary by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.

Prior to joining CEI in 2002, he served as Director of External Relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles,

California. During the 106th Congress, Marlo served as Staff Director of the House Government Reform

Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. Marlo has also served

as Research Director for the grassroots organization, Citizens Against Government Waste. Earlier, he was a Staff

Consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, a Special

Assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization

Affairs, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College.

He holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Political Science from Claremont McKenna

College. His interests include the science, economics, and politics of global warming policy; the precautionary

principle; environmentalism and religion; and the moral basis of free enterprise.

JODY LIPFORDPROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION JLIPFORD@PRESBY.EDU

Jody W. Lipford is Professor of Economics at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. His research

interests span from environmental economics to public finance to sports economics, and

he has published in the journals Environment and Development Economics, Public Finance

Review, The Independent Review, and Education Economics. In 2008 he won the Templeton prize for Article of the

Year in The Journal of Private Enterprise.

He served as visiting scholar at the Property and Environmental Research Center in 2003, and he conducted

the research for this presentation while visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western

Carolina University.

SABRINA LOCKHARTDIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONSSABRINA.LOCKHART@CIPA.ORG

Sabrina Demayo Lockhart, director of communications, joined CIPA in September 2015

in a newly-created position for the association. In this role, she is responsible for pushing

back on misinformation about energy producers, while also promoting the positive economic and philanthropic

contributions of California’s oil and natural gas producers.

Sabrina has more than 15 years of communications strategy experience. She previously served as communications

director of Californians for Energy Independence, a statewide coalition opposed to efforts to increase California’s

reliance on foreign oil by reducing domestic energy production. Sabrina, a former television reporter, also

served in senior communications roles for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former legislative leaders

Assemblywoman Connie Conway, Senator Dave Cogdill and then-Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy. Sabrina

graduated with a BA in Communication Studies from California State University, Sacramento.

NICK LORIS HERBERT AND JOYCE MORGAN FELLOWNICK.LORIS@HERITAGE.ORG

Nick Loris, an economist, focuses on energy, environmental, and regulatory issues as

the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow at The Heritage Foundation. A research fellow in

Heritage’s Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Loris studies and writes about energy supplies, energy prices,

and other economic effects of environmental policies and regulations, including climate change legislation,

energy efficiency mandates, and energy subsidies.

He also covers coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear gas, and renewable energy policy and articulates the benefits of free

market environmentalism. Loris has testified numerous times before House and Senate committees. He has been

published and quoted in major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. His radio

and television appearances include CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. He is a prolific

contributor to the energy and environment section of The Daily Signal, Heritage’s multimedia news organization.

MBA program in Texas and in China, and is the author of numerous books and articles focusing on the economic

impact of regulations.

ROGER MEINERSPROFESSOR OF LAW AND ECONOMICS MEINERS@UTA.EDU

Roger Meiners holds the Goolsby-Rosenthal Chair in Economics and Law and is Chairman

of the Department of Economics at UTA. Previous faculty appointments were at Texas A&M,

Emory, Miami, and Clemson. He also served as a Regional Director of the Federal Trade Commission in Atlanta. He

regularly teaches in UTA’s MBA program in Texas and in China, and is the author of numerous books and articles

focusing on the economic impact of regulations.

MARK MILKECOLUMNIST AND AUTHORMMILKE@TELUS.NET

Mark Milke, PhD, is a political scientist, policy analyst, author, and columnist with four books

and dozens of studies published by policy institutes in Canada, the United States, and

Europe. Formerly a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, his work has also been published in the United States

and Europe by the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation

and the Brussels-based Centre for European Studies. Mark’s policy work has touched on everything from taxes,

civil rights, and private property to airline competition, insurance, aboriginal policy, government monopolies,

and the folly of corporate welfare.

Mark is a Saturday columnist for the Calgary Herald and his columns also appear in the Globe and Mail, National

Post, Maclean’s, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press. Mark has

a PhD in International Relations and Political Philosophy from University of Calgary. Mark is President of the Sir

Winston Churchill Society of Calgary, the past-president of Civitas—a Society for Ideas, a past chairman of the

editorial board of Canada’s Journal of Ideas C2C Journal, and a past lecturer in Political Science at the University

of Calgary.

Mark Milke’s first book was described by former Vancouver Sun editor Trevor Lautens as “written with style and wit,

a must for the thoughtful, and a stimulus for the forgetful.” Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar describes Mark as a

“skilled researcher who uncovers information governments would prefer to keep hidden.”

SALLY C. PIPESPRESIDENT AND CEO SPIPES@PACIFICRESEARCH.ORG

Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San

Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Sally addresses national and international

audiences on health care issues. She has been interviewed on ABC’s 20/20 with John Stossel; CNN’s Lou Dobbs

Show; Fox News’ Glenn Beck Show; NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams; Fox Business Network, The O’Reilly

Factor; Fox News’ Your World With Neil Cavuto; NBC’s The Today Show; Kudlow & Company on CNBC; MSNBC’s

Dateline; Politically Incorrect; The Dennis Miller Show, and other prominent programs. She has a regularly column

in Forbes.com called “Piping Up” and has written for the Examiner newspapers, Investor’s Business Daily, The Wall

Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times of London, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, New York Times, Los

Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, U.S. News and World Report, and the Boston Globe. Sally has

been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress, most recently in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health,

Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging.

She is the author of The Way Out of Obamacare, The Cure for Obamacare, The Pipes Plan, The Truth About Obamacare,

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care a Citizen’s Guide and Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care

Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer.

Ms. Pipes, a former Canadian, became an American citizen in 2006.

ARTHUR WARDLEGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWARTHUR.WARDLE@GROWTHOPPORTUNITY.ORG

Arthur R. Wardle is a Graduate Research Fellow for the Center for Growth and Opportunity

at Utah State University. His research focuses on energy and environmental policy. He has

previously held positions with Reason Foundation and Strata Policy and is currently pursuing graduate work

in economics.

WAYNE WINEGARDENSENIOR FELLOW IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICSWHWINEGARDEN@GMAIL.COM

Dr. Winegarden is a Senior Fellow with the Pacific Research Institute and Principal of Capitol

Economic Advisors. His policy research explores the connection between macroeconomic

policies and economic outcomes, with a focus on the health care and energy industries.

His editorials have been published in outlets such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and

The Hill. Dr. Winegarden’s previous experience includes working as a business economist in Hong Kong, a policy

economist for U.S. based policy and trade associations, as well as economics faculty at Marymount University.

Dr. Winegarden received his PhD in Economics from George Mason University.

ASHLEY DONOHUEDIRECTOR, ACADEMIC TALENT DEVELOPMENTADONOHUE@IHS.GMU.EDU

Ashley Donohue is the Academic Talent Development Director at IHS. In this role, she

oversees programs that provide networking, curriculum, and academic and policy

research support for faculty interested in the study and advancement of freedom. She holds a MA in History as

well as BAs in History and Government. Ashley has interned with the Cato Institute and the U.S. Department of

State and has previously taught U.S. History at the university level. She has two Chihuahuas named Jack and

Espresso, and enjoys practicing yoga, traveling, and drinking too much coffee.

RACHEL SWAFFERDIRECTOR, NETWORK RELATIONSRSWAFFER@IHS.GMU.EDU

Rachel Swaffer is the Director of Network Relations at the Institute for Humane Studies,

where she oversees network strategy, strategic partnerships, coalition relations, and

conference outreach for the organization.

In this capacity, Rachel directs organizational strategy ensuring that IHS and her partners fully capitalize

on opportunities for collaboration with faculty, administrative leaders, university centers, and external

organizations–ensuring that ideas within the classical liberal tradition thrive within the academy and are

further leveraged beyond the university.

Rachel leads academic and policy outreach teams tasked with developing integrated networks to advance

classical liberal scholars and scholarship both within and beyond the academy. They work directly with internal

stakeholders, external partners, policy allies, and our network of over 10,000 current and aspiring faculty to

leverage these networks at the campus, state, and national level.

Prior to joining IHS, Rachel worked in process management for the National Aeronautics Space Administration

(NASA). She also has a background in outreach and program management. A graduate of Hillsdale College and

alumna of IHS programs, Rachel is passionate about the classical liberal tradition and the practical application

of market principles.

STAFF BIOS

SARAH WALKER FACULTY PROGRAMS SPECIALISTSWALKER@IHS.GMU.EDU

Sarah Walker is a Faculty Programs Specialist at IHS. While pursuing a degree in Political

Science at the University of Virginia, Sarah interned for the Center for Politics. Following

graduation, she researched criminal justice reform and tax reform while interning at the Cato Institute and the

Yankee Institute for Public Policy.

In her spare time, Sarah enjoys traveling, calisthenics, and watching telenovelas.

RYAN ZINSKISENIOR EVENT MANAGERJZINSKI@IHS.GMU.EDU

Ryan Zinski joined the Institute for Humane Studies in June, 2011, as a Conference

Management Assistant. Prior to this development, he had been interning at IHS with the

Conference Management team throughout the spring.

Before joining IHS, Ryan interned for his Congressman in the 24th Congressional District of New York State, and

then worked as a Grant Writer for a non-profit organization. Despite working with an amazing and passionate

staff in the Congressional Office, he learned first-hand how difficult it is for federal agencies to address the

needs of the public. Fortunately, Ryan was able to contribute to the community further as a Grant Writer, and

helped secure private funding for programs that help people with disabilities secure and retain meaningful

employment.

Ryan earned his BA from Colgate University in 2009 with concentrations in history and biology. His core academic

interests include history, politics, political philosophy, and economics. Ryan also enjoys cooking, tinkering with

electronics, exercising, being outdoors, and empowering people to live fulfilling and rich lives.

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