David Appell notes more evidence for Appell’s Theorem: As Oil Prices Rise, Nations Revive Coal Mining By MARTIN FACKLER BIBAI, Japan — These rugged green mountains, once home to one of Asia’s most productive coal regions, are littered with abandoned mines and decaying towns — backwaters of an economy of bullet trains and hybrid cars.
In which readers try to top one another in a game of “I pay the most for gas.”
stuff I wrote elsewhere
CBO’s Peter Orszag on the economics of putting a safety valve in a cap-and-trade bill: One option for allowing firms flexibility in determining when to reduce emissions while also achieving compliance with a cumulative emissions target would be through setting both a ceiling—typically referred to as a safety valve—and a floor on the allowance prices …
Judy Pasternak on the battle for mindshare surrounding uranium mining around the Grand Canyon: In recent months, the uranium rush has spawned a clash as epic as the canyon’s 18-mile chasm, with both sides claiming to be working for the good of the planet. Environmental organizations have appealed to federal courts and Congress to halt …
Preliminary 2007 US greenhouse emission numbers are out:
This morning at work, I threw out an idle question on the newspaper web site about how rising gas prices are affecting people. The response was rich and thoughtful.
Simon Donner today answered a bunch of questions I had about US food production numbers: [T]he extra corn for ethanol has to be planted on productive croplands, lands with the right soils, and most of that land is being used. In 2007, soybean planting – the other major feed crop grown in the midwest US …
Food prices popped back up a bit over the last week, according to the Economist, but have remained relatively stable for the last month. Down 1.7 percent over the last month, up 58.7 percent over the last year. West Texas Intermediate is up 99.8 percent over the last year (that would be “double”), and gold, …
When we talk about energy independence here in the United States, there’s a sort of tribal subtext. We don’t want to be dependent on them for our critical energy needs. Listening to a Platts’ podcast today about pipeline production south from Canada made me wonder whether them in our collective mind includes Canada. I don’t …