I don’t know if you have seen any of the commercials by BP, Exxon, or Shell in which these oil companies, the same companies reaping windfall profits from record oil prices, burnish their green credentials. The commercials are all fairly similar; we learn that the companies are looking ‘beyond petroleum’ to renewable sources of energy: [...]
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Free Greenwash w/ Every Tank
Posted in Culture, Environment, tagged BP, economy, Environment, ExxonMobil, gas, green, oil, Shell, Stephen Colbert on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Crack Addicts & Gas Pumps
Posted in Economics, Environment, Politics, tagged addiction, Arming the Donkeys, behavioral economics, climate change, crack, Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahnemann, Economics, gas, global warming, NYtimes, oil, Politics, Predictably Irrational, the economy, the environment, Thomas Friedman on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t mind the high price of gas these days, not because I don’t drive–I do–but because I think gas ought to be priced this high, and probably even higher. These high prices should reduce the demand for gasoline, and the sooner this happens, the better; the continued unmitigated consumption of cheap fossil fuels could [...]
