If you’re a grocery retailer, especially a convenience store, refusing to sell bottled water will lead to an immediate and severe reduction to your income stream. Accordingly, I’d like to extend my kudos to whomever wrote this note on his …
Category: Renewables – Business
Big Money in Government
What FDR said here 75 years ago provides insight into where we are now, where we have a Supreme Court justice taking bribes and a climate change mitigation strategy that’s stuck in the mud, due to the fact that the …
Trickle-Down Economics
What American author and journalist William Blum says here seems correct. The reason trickle-down economics doesn’t work is that making rich people richer does not provide them with any incentive to hire additional people. I had over 100 employees at …
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Numerous Problems with Our Food System
There is no doubt that the author of the meme here has identified a problem with our food system, though I would argue that it’s not the problem. In addition to potatoes, the recipe for McDonald’s French fries includes a …
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Facts Don’t Matter, and That Has Consequences
The meme here speaks to what has become a defining element of American society, i.e., facts have ceased to matter. Here we have a scenario in which essentially every metric surrounding the economy is extremely positive; inflation, job growth, real …
Understanding the U.S. Consumer Economy
If you’d like some insight into what’s happening in the airline industry and how it affects its customers, I recommend the video linked here. Please note that the trends that former labor secretary Robert Reich identifies here cross over into …
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The Union of Concerned Scientists on Hydrogen
The Union of Concerned Scientists writes: Will hydrogen be a climate solution? Not if fossil fuel interests get their way. With billions of taxpayer dollars set to flow, the Biden administration must set rigorous hydrogen standards to defend against a …
Issues Associated with Reprocessing Asphalt Shingles
Sky Quarry asks prospective investors: Did you know millions of tons of shingles end up in landfills every year? It’s an environmental problem. But we have a solution! At Sky Quarry, we get paid to collect and dispose of asphalt …
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Restructuring the Edifice
And precisely what is this “edifice” to which MLK was referring? I would simply say trickle-down economics. Lowering the top federal tax bracket from 90% to 28%, while taxing Social Security benefits and handing out huge additional tax breaks for …
Corporate Greed
I’m sure the actual reason that today’s air travel is so uncomfortable is complex, but it strikes me that there was a limit to corporate greed 50 years ago that is altogether absent from our lives today.
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