The ad here sent me immediately to Google and Snopes, as I couldn’t believe that a brand of this magnitude would do something so bold and risky. Might this be fake? Nope, it’s real as the day is long. A …
Category: Renewables – Business
Wrapping Our Wits Around Trickle-Down Economics
Here’s a nasty little piece of irony: cowboy/humorist Will Rogers had a better understanding of macroeconomics than Nobel Laureate and trickle-down economist Milton Friedman.
Truth on Vulture Capitalism from an Incredibly Unlikely Source
Here’s a jolt to the system: an expose’ by none other than Fox News on vulture capitalism, how heartless, greedy billionaire hedge fund managers are destroying rural America, eliminating thousands of jobs and turning formerly-thriving small towns into boarded-up shells …
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Begorrah! Ireland Got Half Its Energy from Wind Last Saturday
Good going Ireland. The bar chart below presents the contribution that wind energy made to each European country’s overall grid-mix. Note the breakdown between onshore and offshore. Impressive stuff.
Making Food Out of Air
Theoretically impossible? No. Totally unfeasible? Only if you object to paying $200,000 for a loaf of bread.
Trade War Delivering a Sharp Hit to American Manufacturing
“Either you manufacture things or you’re leaching off the people you do,” a kid I knew in college told me. “You mean the dentist who keeps my teeth from rotting out of my head is leaching off some guy who …
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Koch Industries Lobbying Up 20% This Year, Aiming To Kill Clean Car Policies
Lobbying by Koch Industries is up by almost 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to the mandatory disclosure forms linked above. Makes sense, given that Democrats took control of the House, as the Green New Deal entered …
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California Isn’t Perfect, But It’s Doing Quite Well, Thanks Very Much
I get emails from people all over the country who want me to know that California, via its “oppressive” environmental regulations, is driving people, and especially businesses, out of state.
America’s March Towards 100% Clean Energy
We frequently lament that the U.S. federal government is going backwards vis-a-vis renewable energy, yet we are prone to overlook what is happening at the state and local level. A new report from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation documents how …
Where Trump Came From
We’ve been discussing where Trump is going, and I’m the first to admit that it’s anyone’s guess. How he got here, however, is quite clear; in fact, it’s summarized in the content of the meme here. Since 1980, the vast …
