Michael Giberson Wonkette blogger-in-chief Ana Marie Cox is turning in the keys to the Wonkette kingdom for a shot at fame and fortune in the fusty world of ink-on-paper publishing. Her novel, Dog Days, was recently published and she has a deal ? in the ?mid-six-figures? according to one report ? to write about the …
Michael Giberson I tried typing with gloves on, but it didn?t turn out so well. (Can you read this: ?Tgjhkis a tewaest rfp0 k,u tuju[o9jme woytuj gp0v4es pjm.? Me neither.) U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman is urging consumers to be more ?energy conscious? and called for greater conservation and energy efficiency. I forgot to turn …
Michael Giberson In an interesting complement to Lynne?s article on the Russia-Ukraine natural gas situation (How Do You Say “Holdup Problem” in Ukrainian?), the folks at the Energy Legal Blog report on a proposed regulatory change by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affecting the ability to unilaterally change the terms of a long-term contract …
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Michael Giberson Some consumers are willing to pay a little extra for a product, if they think they are supporting a good cause. It may be possible to get quality cookies at a lower price from the supermarket itself than from the Girl Scouts parked outside in the springtime, but since it is for a …
Michael Giberson Which business would you rather be in, one in which the price of your product is rocketing upwards, or one in which the price is slowly drifting down? “Rockets” and “feathers” are names characterizing a pair of stylized facts about the usual behavior of retail gasoline prices: when prices are going up, they …
Michael Giberson FERC has issued a new proposed rule that would revise regulations governing ?Qualifying Facilities? (QF). QFs are small renewable energy generators or cogeneration facilities that, under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, gained the right to sell power to public utilities at the utilities? ?avoided cost.? This right to sell power, …
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Michael Giberson At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen points to a USA Today story about Penguin Books’ new Great Ideas series. The books offer extracts, the USA Today story called them “samplings”, from great non-fiction. The first twenty books include work by Seneca, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Orwell. The Penguin website invites visitors to vote on …
Michael Giberson So many potential Supreme Court nominees, and so little time to evaluate them all! New World Man has put together a quiz to help you find the one that is right for you. (Be sure to read the update.) It told me I would like Edith Holland Jones: JUDGE EDITH HOLLAN JONESU.S. Court …
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Michael Giberson Raymond Welch is perhaps the only person in Maryland who doesn’t care about the record-breaking heating costs expected to hit homeowners this winter. When Welch hears about soaring energy prices, he smiles and gazes out the window of his farmhouse at his personal natural gas well, which supplies his home with unlimited free …
Michael Giberson Rainbough Phillips amusingly tags price gouging as “the Phantom Menace” in a post on Catallarchy. She also provides a neat insider’s look at the supply and demand for emergency supplies, viewed from the returns counter at an Austin-area big box hardware store. Meanwhile, back in Houston, authorities are urging the city’s gasoline station …
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