In the Gulf oil spill’s aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil — by confronting consumers with its real cost.
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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August 30th, 2010 at 8:02 am
uh huh..
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She is a graduate of Yale University.
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that would make her just to the left of center….right Barry?
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As director of the New America Foundation Energy Policy Initiative – whose current Director is Eric (never met a privacy policy I liked) Schmidt and previous director James Fallows (Currently a National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and formerly Editor of U.S. News & World Report – both *very* unbiased rags)..
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time to check the alignment of the wheels Barry! ;-)
August 30th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Sounds like somebody has been looking at the 30 year old European model.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:23 am
To sainttjames, regarding your comment above:
Aside from labeling and pigeonholing the speaker, what is your point? What do you think about the ideas she offers in the last few minutes of the talk? Should we be taxing gas at a higher rate to reduce our use? Should we put health warning labels on the receipt? Is reducing our consumption of oil important. What would you do?
August 30th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
sainttjames – how does your “proximity implies causation” reasoning work when considering other Yale grads, for example, George W. Bush? Or their hiring of Stanley McChrystal to teach this fall?
Isn’t it more accurate (though more work) to consider the facts and logic of any debate, rather than just the actors’ background? Not doing the former will kill you in investing.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:58 am
I could feel my brain cells dying the more I listened to her dreck. One strawman after another set up and knocked down. I couldn’t make it to the end.It’s the equivalent of mental waterboarding.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
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