Why DOES a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?
Interesting and very informative piece on farm subsidies. The commentary on Representative Frank Lucas is particularly notable (and depressing). Business-as-usual – including farm business – needs to change in Washington. Amplify’d from pointsandfigures.com Federal crop subsidies make up a large portion of the Department of Agriculture’s budget. Simple economics says that if there is a [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010
Photo credit Lauren Manning And here are this week’s Green Numbers: GE: Good citizen, but where’s the payoff? Inside GE, Ecomagination is deemed a success, so much so that it has spawned a sister initiative (if you can spawn a sister) called Healthymagination, focused on profitably creating better health for more people. GE says that [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs tags: obama solar power [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: BP oil spill costs hit $1.6bn | Business The cost of BP’s clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico has now hit $1.6bn (£1.1bn), but the final cost of the huge oil spill remains unquantifiable. tags: oilspill, bp, cleanup, clean-up, Gulf of Mexico, greennumbers Money trumps security in [...]
Keynesian Porn
Read this and thought “right on brother”. it ain’t exactly the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Every American who pays taxes is invested in your EV at this point. Self-righteousness gets you nowhere when the playing field ain’t level. Just sayin… [From Quote Of The Day: Don’t Make Me Pull This Oversubsidized Niche [...]
