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Remember the Vega response? It’s a philosophy problem.

…known: the sedan would be a lightweight, diesel-electric hybrid. (Diesel engines, because they use a higher compression ratio, consume less fuel per mile than gasoline engines do.) By 2000, the…

Household spending on fuel, food, drink

…is a rough sort of picture to consider the impact of bio-fuel development on food supplies. But then Jib in comments reminds us of additional complexities of trade in food….

On Those Rising Fuel Taxes?

…$1.49, $2.49, or $3.49. So while industry profits go through booms and busts, government profits grow steadily larger. If one takes a look at their graph of fuel tax in…

Imagining

fuel industry. According to The Environmental and Energy Study Institute https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-closer-look-at-tax-breaks-and-societal-costs But rather than being phased out, fossil fuel subsidies are actually increasing. The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report…