Michael Giberson
Johnson is a one-person summary of how high corn prices are washing through the world of agriculture and climate change. Normally, he plants half of his 900 acres with corn and half with soybeans. He alternates crops on each field because it is better for the soil.
But last year he planted 500 acres of […]
Michael Giberson
Food-to-fuel mandates were created for the right reasons. The hope of using American-grown crops to fuel our cars seemed like a win-win-win scenario: Our farmers would enjoy the benefit of crop-price stability. Our national security would be enhanced by having a new domestic energy source. Our environment would be protected by a cleaner fuel. […]
Michael Giberson
The Salina Journal quoted Rep. Clay Aurand, R-Courtland, as saying, “This is like a giant race to be the cleanest.”
Apparently on Tuesday morning Kansas House Republicans reconsidered their enthusiasm for carbon taxing, and voted to eliminate the carbon tax proposal.
Pigovian taxes are great in theory, but even in theory sometimes quantity regulation is […]
Michael Giberson
Arnold Kling notes Ray Kurzweil’s optimistic forecast on solar power (from LiveScience). Here’s the Kurzweil quote on solar power:
“It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we’ll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.”
Kling’s response:
This is […]
So just off the phone with Bill Foster, a physicist from Illinois, Democrat, running in a special election to fill Dennis Hastert’s seat. When I started to think about this run, Foster was a model. A former researcher at Fermilab, and entrepreneur, he is precisely the sort a changed Congress would need.
“Seven hours a […]
