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By: [BLOCKED BY STBV] Gas Saving Engine Chip

[BLOCKED BY STBV] Gas Saving Engine Chip — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:06:07 +0000

Gas Saving Engine Chip…

I don’t mean to be too in your face, but I’m not sure I agree with this. Anyhow, thanks for sharing and I think I’ll come to this blog more often….

By: unnikuttan

unnikuttan — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:38:13 +0000

nice analysis.

By: Graeme Bird

Graeme Bird — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:31:44 +0000

Well there’s a lie right there. I’ve been talking about energy-economics and the impending energy crisis for two years now. During that time the oil price has gone from about 40USD to 110 USD.

I’ve been involved with threads of doom on these matters. I’ve written essays on my own blogs.

Now Humphreys. I’m not interested in you dodging the argument. Your shiftiness is very clear here. Unlike at “Thoughts On Freedom” you have not been able to wipe my posts.

Now here’s just a brief few points to get your teeth into:

1. Industrial-CO2 is a positive externality. There’s no getting around that.

2. A carbon-tax will fall more fully on productive expenditure than just about any other tax as Gerry points out.

3. A carbon-tax may lead to malinvestment. So its a massive exercise in deliberately “picking losers”.

4. A carbon-tax will lead to a reduction in reinvestment in energy production.

5. It is in fact a tax on energy production IN THE MIDDLE OF AN IMPENDING ENERGY CRISIS. A crisis not caused by inherent lack of fuel, but by enforced deprivation of energy-producing capital.

6. Our hydro-carbon energy resources are fundamentally carbon-rich and hydrogen-poor. So our next move is away from using gasoline and natural gas and towards using more coal and heavy fuels. So the carbon-tax sits directly on top of our adaptation efforts. Its about the worst tax imagineable at this time in our energy history.

By: John Humphreys

John Humphreys — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:39:35 +0000

Graeme — you have made no analysis. You have simply ranted. I’m not even sure your comments have been in english. I’ve fully addressed every single comment from Gerry. His arguments have been dismantled. Don’t blame me if you don’t understand.

By: Graeme Bird

Graeme Bird — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:21:59 +0000

No you skated around Gerry’s arguments and you never addressed my supplementary analysis though it has been sent your way for two years.

I wanted yuou to actually address my arguments and not merely assert falsely that you had already done so.

You might have thought I was after such false assertions but actually I wanted you to address the arguments.

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By: John Humphreys

John Humphreys — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:50:12 +0000

Graeme — the arguments are all set out in my post & comments on the ALS blog. The bloody twitching body of Gerry’s credibility has been left sprawled on the floor.

He has been weighed. He has been tested. And he has been found wanting.

By: Graeme Bird

Graeme Bird — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:20:25 +0000

But what they aren’t doing is engaging the arguments for and against the carbon tax.

By: Terje (say tay-a)

Terje (say tay-a) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:45:02 +0000

Catallaxy has some fun with the hippy spin:-

http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=3470

By: Graeme Bird

Graeme Bird — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:58:59 +0000

Looks like you haven’t stepped out of that argument-free-zone you keep yourself surrounded in Humphreys.