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Did the stimulus save green jobs?

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Posted on Apr 18 2011 by Daniel

“The Stimulus Worked!” You may now return to your regularly scheduled unemployment.


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  Tags: carbon tax, efficiency, green jobs, stimulus, subsidies Category: EcoMetrics, Energy, Financial, Policy, Residential

This just in: corn ethanol “was not a good policy.”

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Posted on Nov 22 2010 by Daniel

Guess which politician admitted that pouring billions of dollars into a corn-ethanol subsidy was a bad idea? If you said George W. Bush, you’re wrong. Well, maybe he said it too, but…


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  Tags: al gore, corn, ethanol, subsidies Category: Energy, Policy, Transportation

Please don’t feed the dinosaurs.

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Posted on Jul 26 2010 by Daniel

If you feed a dinosaur, you get a bigger dinosaur. Just don’t come complaining to me when it eats you.


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  Tags: ethanol, fossil fuel, renewables, subsidies Category: Energy, Policy

Brazil Calls Our Bluff

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Posted on Apr 12 2010 by Daniel

Tweet via Greentech Media: One of the main arguments that pro-ethanol lobby groups like the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy make in defense of the generous Congressional subsidies to U.S. corn ethanol producers is that Brazil unfairly competes by slapping a 20% tariff on imported ethanol, effectively locking out U.S. ethanol exports. Well, [...]


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  Tags: Brazil, corn, ethanol, subsidies, tariffs Category: Energy, Food and Agriculture, Policy

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