TT`s Lost in Tokyo : subsidies

More on Pickens: FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece; Milloy responds

TokyoTom — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:35:00 GMT

FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece Warren Mitchell (former chairman of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric, and director and head of the compensation committee of Pickens' owned Clean Energy Fuels); Steven Milloy...(read more)

Bootleggers and Baptists in Texas and DC: Texas sells Pickens eminent domain powers and wind power transmission rights for his personal 8-acre "water district", while Sierra Club helps to push wind subsidies

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:06:00 GMT

[Update: David Zetland at his Aquanomics blog has linked to my piece , astutely noting that if one applies Bruce Yandle `s "Bootleggers and Baptists" metaphor to Pickens' campaign for wind power and transmission subsidies, Pickens as Bootlegger...(read more)

As insects increasingly bite into rice crops, who should pay for crop research?

TokyoTom — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:46:00 GMT

Keeping ahead of crop diseases and pests is a continual challenge, particularly as climate and weather patterns change. This challenge is in part compounded by the involvement of governments around the world in in subsidizing the consumption of certain...(read more)