Comments on: What Green Government Does When It Picks Winners

By: Hampers

Hampers — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:58:45 +0000

Hopefully the minds of the powerful be worthy enough to gear towards a greener world. We are no longer after our present predicament but of the future of our young generation. They deserve to feel the refreshing “world”, toxic-free environment too.

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By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:21:03 +0000

When even Mother Jones call liberals retards, it's pretty obvious that liberals are retards.

By: MattC

MattC — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:33:16 +0000

Will,

I don't know if you ever have researched this or written on it, but I would love to get your take on the obesity-poverty demographics correlation in the US, it's (theoretical) relation to food prices, and specifically it's relation to cheap food.

By: Paul_G_Brown

Paul_G_Brown — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Interesting to compare and contrast this post — where the idealogues (read: politicians) — did something — biofuels — that the technocrats (science types, policy wonks) — thought was pretty stupid.

In their defense, it isn't clear to me that what you have here is a case of picking a winner. The overall response has been more portfolio based. Tax credits for household solar, quota requirements on power generators that are leading (here in California, anyway) to investments in geothermal and wind. A commendable emphasis on energy savings. At a federal level we're gonna have a cap-n-trade (not ideal, but if you auction the licenses, and allow 'em to be resold, and enforce the thing well, then you have a psuedo-carbon tax).

Biofuels are dumb. But in the great sausage factory that is the political process, I'll trade my votes for ethanol from corn (although I think it's dumb) for your votes on cap-n-trade, and what-not.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:02:29 +0000

75% seems like a wild over estimate, I've seen more like 15-20% elsewhere, in any case the idea of cap and trade is that the market picks winners…the government builds infrastructure that can accommodate whatever winner is spat out…