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Why DOES a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?

Why DOES a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?

By Chris Selland on November 13, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged agriculture, Energy, food price inflation, subsidies, subsidy, Uncategorized

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010

By Tom Raftery on July 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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged aerogenerator, Carbon emissions, climate change, CSR, GE, Green Investment Bank, GreenNumbers, phytoplankton, rbs, Royal Bank of Scotland, subsidies, synapsense, tpc-energy, Wind turbine

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010

By Tom Raftery on July 9, 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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged coal fired power plants, emeter, green jobs, GreenNumbers, hosepipe ban, lithium batteries, minerals, photovoltaic, sequoia, Solar power, Spain, subsidies, tariffs

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

By Tom Raftery on June 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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged bluefin tuna, coal, GreenNumbers, gulf of mexico, joe barton, Natural gas, oil, oilspill, Renewable energy, subsidies, tony hayward

Keynesian Porn

Keynesian Porn

By Jeff Nolan on May 27, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cleantech, economy, EV, gm, gmac, Great Depression, Money supply, subsidies, Tax

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