Dan McKay has an excellent story in this morning’s ABQJournal on some of the practical aspects of trying to spend all that federal cash in a hurry (ad gated): [C]ritics are starting to wonder whether the massive projects are remotely realistic — even if Congress doles out the money. For one thing, under federal law, …
In my quest for intuitive ways of understanding the relative costs of various forms of energy, kudos to the Financial Times for this graphic (and also a good article to go with it): Hat tip Gernot at Env-Econ.
It is frequently suggested that there are important parallels between the changing business models of the news and music industries, and that there is much we can learn from one another. I am currently brainstorming ways to get someone to pay me to perform journalism in bars.
The new bike path makes getting in and out of my neighborhood much safer, but I no longer find myself behind the neighborhood Wal-Mart MegaStore, which means I’ve lost touch with the Inkstain Cheap Shit From China (CSFC) Index. It’s based on the number of shipping containers out back to hold the overflow inventory they …
One of the pluses of working in a newsroom is when smart people walk by your desk and tell you interesting things. One of the pluses of subscribing to a newspaper is the followup part, where the smart people write it all down, and then people stay up all night to print it up and …
Roadrunner Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Lissa was on her way out the door this morning when she stuck her head back in and shouted to me, “Speedy’s back.” Lissa took this picture last week. I’m pretty sure it’s a pair, because this morning’s bird had the more dramatic color behind the eye than it looks …
Nothing like a good ol’ economic collapse to get us on the using-less-energy bandwagon. Total energy consumption in the US is down 1.7 percent for the first 9 months of 2008, compared to the same period a year ago, according to EIA.
John Whitehead’s green jobs freight train has apparently completely burned its brakes on the run out of the mountains, and is hurtling headlong toward we know not what. In this morning’s epistle, Whitehead quotes a Forbes listing of the new green jobs (Could Forbes really misunderstand macroeconomics? This being a blog and not real journalism, …
A couple of months ago in this space, a commenter responded to a post about economists favoring a carbon tax as a response to climate change by asking whether said economists were “liberal and socialistic”. The question is perhaps best answered by reference to former advisors to George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan who favor …
Via Dessler and Revkin, an interesting interview with economist Gary Yohe that gets to the heart of the puzzle about gasoline consumption this year. Gas prices soared over the summer, but consumption dropped only a bit (on the order of 3-5 percent year-over-year). The question posed by critics of a carbon tax as a greenhouse …
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