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Claire McCaskill, for instance, twittered, "I hope we can fix cap and trade so it doesn’t unfairly punish businesses and families in coal dependent states like Missouri." The point of cap-and-trade, as I understand it, is that it fairly disadvantages people and businesses who are dependent on cheap coal and are harming the atmosphere. ~ [...]
Filed under: energy, environment, taxation
Via Andrew comes an extraordinarily bad idea from Raymond J. Learsy at the Huffington Post: There is no doubt that the current Iranian government holds two trump cards. The first is guns, and a trained and disciplined coterie of government enforcers to turn on the dissidents. The second of course is the huge cash flow [...]
Filed under: energy, foreign affairs
Responding to some of Conor’s remarks on the kinds of public choice problems facing the honest implementation of the progressive agenda, publius at Obsidian Wings writes (emphasis mine): [Friedersdorf] could be right. I hope he’s not, but it’s a powerful critique that progressives shouldn’t ignore. What’s promising, though, is that the ambition and content of [...]
The Telegraph reports that it may be contributing to global warming. I’m inclined to quote what Russell Arben Fox wrote last week: … I am fully aware of the various economic impact calculations that have been made of recycling efforts over the years, many of which have concluded that melting down plastic and reprocessing paper [...]
Filed under: energy, environment
Ryan Avent worries about what will happen if the Obama administration fails to pass significant climate change legislation: I don’t think warming will mean the end of humanity, but it will be serious enough that major geo-political change will take place, leading to all manner of unpredictable, and often catastrophic, outcomes. And as we approach [...]
Filed under: energy, environment
As Lee joins Ezra Klein in cautioning against an overemphasis on locavorism, I’d like to emphasize in turn that there are lots of reasons to eat locally-produced food that have very little to do with the desire to reduce emissions. For one thing, as Jim Henley points out, local food tasty – and for a [...]
Filed under: energy, environment, food
Michael Pollan’s missive to the next President on the future of American food policy is well worth reading, and not just because it quotes me: Writing of the movement back to local food economies, traditional foods (and family meals) and more sustainable farming, The American Conservative magazine editorialized last summer that “this is a conservative [...]
Filed under: agriculture, energy, environment, food, government/law
Apologies for another post-less day – summer teaching is almost over. The following, though, is for your viewing pleasure: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.661752&w=425&h=350&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Freasontv-video%2Freasontv_video_462.flv%26displayheight%3D268%26image%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.reason.tv%2F%2Fpreview%2Fethanol-start.jpg%26backcolor%3D0x000000%26frontcolor%3D0xFFFFFF%26playping%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freason.tv%2Fstat%2Fplayme.php%26bandwidthtest%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freason.tv%2Fstat%2Fbandwidthtest.php%26vidid%3D462%26refer%3D%26height%3D268%26width%3D480] More on ethanol here and here and here and here.
Filed under: agriculture, energy, environment
Depending on how you look at it, David Weigel’s report from a bloggers’ meeting with John Boehner – quick version: the man seems to have No Idea what he is doing – is either (a) a profoundly depressing window into GOP dysfunction, (b) an awesomely grin-inducing window into GOP dysfunction, or (c) both of the [...]
Yglesias is going to love this: Watching the 6-foot-9 [Kevin] Durant stroke one jumper after another in his one game on Tuesday was worth the price of a press pass. He had 22 points, two 3-pointers and five rebounds in a single 27-minute appearance — and not surprisingly his team captured its first victory as [...]