…the tractor. Maybe the tractor is a little less efficient at plowing smaller fields since it has to make many turns. Or maybe fuel for the tractor is much more…

…a bit about consumption because I was reading Yves Smith’s article today, and she referred to “debt-fueled consumption” – the now pejorative phrase that just rolls off the tongue. She…

…huge deficit is caused primarily by the failure to impose higher mileage standards on automobiles, implement other fossil-fuel saving technologies, and to develop US domestic oil and gas resources. Together,…

…that Americans can buy food and fuel at reasonable prices…” Mankiw chose to talk about the market for gasoline ! OK prof Mankiw I have a proposal. This evening get…

…I wasn’t going to, which it might, and I get the kind of car I think want, taxpayers will have paid me $4500 to drive a nicer but less fuel…

…under the Kimberly Process. This international certification scheme ensures that trade in rough diamonds doesn’t fuel war, as it did in Angola, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

…improvements in energy efficiency, and through such investments households can avoid paying more for energy. Jobs and wages in fossil fuel industries are likely to decline but job opportunities will…

…power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America. As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad…

…to fuel asset price inflation. Housing prices have probably been inflated thanks to all of this liquidity (as many people have noted), but so have bond prices. As a result,…

…two vulnerabilities of the market niche the Big 3 occupied: poor fuel economy and high prices. Is this a variation of “Geography is Destiny?” Or, what could have been done…