Freakonomics Gets It Right/Wrong (Completely)
Cars cost a lot more than we pay for, say Dubner and Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame:with roughly three trillion miles driven each year producing more than $300 billion in externality costs, drivers...
View ArticleOne honest voice on gas prices (a non-partisan rant)
Warning: the following is my opinion. While everything I write here is to a lesser or greater degree a reflection of my opinion, this post falls into the “greater degree” category :-)I believe Barack...
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White House Doesn’t Open Mail from EPA Stating Carbon is a Pollutant
If you cover your ears and say “la-la-la-la-la” does that mean you don’t hear your parents telling you go to bed? Not in my house.Apparently the White House feels differently. The New York Times...
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If You Say Something Enough, It’s True (So I Do)
It's True!OK, so yesterday I wrote a nice review of compact fluorescent bulbs and did my environmental thing. But what’s on my mind these days is a little less direct: is the current strategy of the...
View ArticleTalkin’ About Energy Independence
In watchin’ the VP Debate last night I now understand Sarah’s and John’s position on energy independence. See, I’ve been havin’ some problems understandin’ how these guys can be for it when all they’re...
View Article“Truthful Terms” are not The Truth
(Note: this post has nothing whatsoever to do with energy or conservation: it’s a political rant)Fox News.com reports that McCain spokesman, Tucker Bounds responded to an Obama ad.“We’re going to talk...
View ArticleMy Last Political Post (I Promise)*
Delightful. Frightful.* I promise that this will be my last political post for a while unless something really, really un-delightful and frightful happens, begins to happen. Or for any other currently...
View ArticleHow Bush Solved the Climate Crisis
No one has given our (still) President Bush a lot of credit for taking positive steps to help solve the climate crisis.But in a master stroke, he has taken the first step, and like many others, it’s a...
View ArticleObama. Hope Springs. (Eternal TBD.)
No guarantees. No certainty. No proscriptions. A nice little stock market plunge in response. Nope — hope is not something you can take to the bank. But maybe it’s something we can work with.The...
View ArticleAIG: Too Late To Defuse an Exploded Bomb
Ok, I’m off-topic on this one, but I’m a little ticked off, and I always like to vent my frustration in a public place. AIG has a problem with bonuses. Obama has asked Geitner to see what legal...
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