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Category Archives: Economy
Climate Change, Climate Skeptics and Climate Fools
Under eleven grafs of organic compost, the NYT Green Blog buries its discomfiting lede: unless we’re willing to get serious about nuclear energy, it’s all just talk. Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Economy, Energy, Environment, Peak Oil
Tagged M. King Hubbert, Nuclear Energy, Peak Gas, Peak Oil, Sola, wind energy
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‘Eco-Taxes’ Planned for a Second Obama Term?
The issue of Climate Change has been a no-show in the 2012 election cycle; one would think that ManBearPig had been named an endangered species. But a two-year study commisioned by Barack Obama’s Treasury Department will recommend ways to “green” … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics
Tagged AGW, Climate Change, ipcc, ManBearPig, Stacked Decks, Tax Policy, The Chicago Way
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Obama to Super Bowl Champs: ‘You Didn’t Build That’
No, of course he didn’t say that. But what if he had? And why is it any less appropriate to tell a sports hero that than a small business owner? Imagine for a moment an alternate universe where the President … Continue reading
There’s sand in them thar hills! #rsrh
Frac sand boom creates prosperity, shovel-ready jobs, and “sand millionaires” in America’s sandbox, but generates controversy – AEIdeas “I spent the weekend along the Mississippi River in Buffalo City, Wisconsin, about 120 miles south of Minneapolis-St. Paul (across the river … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Energy
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Chart of the Day: Coal- and natural gas-fired generation equal for first time in April 2012 #rsrh
Monthly coal- and natural gas-fired generation equal for first time in April 2012 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Recently published electric power data show that, for the first time since EIA began collecting the data, generation from natural gas-fired plants … Continue reading
Post-Mortem for the Ethanol Tax Credit
A couple of weeks back, my boss asked a question that I could not immediately answer: The ethanol tax credit expired on December 31. The price of ethanol should have gone up afterward. Did it? How much has that affected … Continue reading
Shorter Krugman: $15B Big Dig was worth it because it saved me $5 in cab fare. #rsrh
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/infrastructure-spending-yields-results/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto “The Big Dig is often treated as a cautionary tale of delays and cost overruns, and I have no idea how the cost-benefit analysis looks in retrospect. And I’m in general skeptical about highway expansions. But there sure have … Continue reading
A Little Perspective, Please.
Exxon’s top exec got a 17pct. pay raise in 2011 Exxon Mobil gave its top executive a 17 percent increase in compensation last year, as the oil giant posted one of its most profitable years on record. Rex Tillerson, 60, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Energy
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‘Intellectual bankruptcy’, Dr. Krugman?
Paul Krugman’s op-ed, “Natural Born Drillers” (New York Times, March 15), purports to show with a hard look at the numbers why no thinking, perceptive person could possibly believe that “Drill, Baby, Drill” is a solution to the nation’s energy … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Energy
Tagged Dr. Paul Krugman, Inept, Intellectually Dishonest, Lazy, Nobel Prize for Economics, Phony Statistics, Strawman
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