Why don’t hotels have no-frills “green rooms” ? Here’s how it would work. First, instead of those little disposable bottles of shampoo and conditioner and body lotion (who the hell even uses the body lotion?), they’d have a dispenser. Second, if you want changes of sheets and towels you’d pay extra. In fact, maid serivce [...]
Read Full PostTHE GREEN DIVIDEND: HOW TO END OUR FOSSIL FUEL ADDICTION WITHOUT PAIN
No one talks seriously about reducing our dependence on carbon-based fuels by taxing them, which would be the obvious way to reduce consumption. The conventional wisdom is that such a tax would be expensive and unpopular, politically dead on arrival. And if the tax [...]
In energy policy, ThinkOOB always starts with two assumptions:
(1) People use too much gasoline because it is priced far lower than it should be. Even if one does not accept the hypothesis of global warming as a basis for believing that gasoline is underpriced, one cannot dispute the fact that half of our defense budget [...]