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• Peter: The govt. pays (or makes taxpayers pay) for the highways. The costs of transportation for transportation-intensive companies like Wal-Mart is thus ...
• Jennifer Abel: t seems to me that in an energy scarce world entire business models (the warehouse on wheels, for example) will be entirely unworkable. True...
• Lakis Polycarpou: I wish I shared your confidence about businesses being able to adapt. It seems to me that in an energy scarce world entire business models (the wareho...
• Keith Preston: For the most part, I would prefer that America be more like Europe. I'd rather have Sweden's or Switzerland's foreign policy, than US foreign policy. ...
• Dain: Angelica, You're right, there is no good reason to think everyone at AOTP "wants us to be like Europe." I guess I was projecting my own inclination...
• Jennifer Abel: Quasibill explained my reasons why I don't think electricity or something similar will replace gasoline for transportation energy on the near horizon....
• quasibill: Kurt, I haven't read Calculated Chaos yet, but it's at the top of my list when I finish my current batch of reading (mainly "A Nation of Counterfei...
• Jason Kuznicki: Angelica, Jason’s point probably is that the man described in this post was in severe pain for which Tylenol is not at all effective. Hence the ex...
• Keith Preston: "Keith Preston, It’s called personal responsiblity. That’s your value judgement. A world with no safeguards in which every man is his own safety con...
• Lakis Polycarpou: Hi Jennifer, According to the EIA, “transportation” accounts for two thirds of the U.S. oil consumption. But “transportation” doesn’t just include ...
• quasibill: I can't speak for Jennifer, but that is definitely the issue that energy policy wonks break it down to. We have a fairly unlimited pool of "stationar...
• quasibill: "But I fail to see what this has to do with the subject at hand." Well, since you've since qualified your position slightly, my point is somewhat l...
• ajay: That’s the concern: not Peak Oil for America, but Peak Personal Transportation. Unless you’re one of the relative few American residents who live s...
• Angelica: Warnings, maybe. Not making is available OTC is not “light touch”. OK, agreed. Now that I've thought about it a bit more (especially given ...
• Mantar: JS: That didn't really strike me as an "analysis." Of course, that might be because I didn't finish it. I got bored around the second time he flat-o...
• Abhishek: "But I don’t see any conflict in doing that AND be in favor of all the light-touch regulations that Alix suggests. If the research is there to suggest...
• Daphne: I'm still trying to figure out if a "Creative Charter School" is actually a PUBLIC school....it kind of sounds like the kind you'd pay tuition and be ...
• Alix: "Look, it is hard to argue w/ Alix when she is watching her father die. But the fact is, he drank alcoholically until 4 yrs ago." Not really. I wou...
• Daphne: That's all well and good, IF you realize there's a DEFINITE danger. The point is, "may cause" (in tiny print) isn't very threatening when you have ...
• Mona: I’m all for the easing up of restrictions on morphine use. But I don’t see any conflict in doing that AND be in favor of all the light-touch reg...
• Angelica: Smally, Jennifer I'm all for the easing up of restrictions on morphine use. But I don't see any conflict in doing that AND be in favor of all the...
• Kurt Horner: quasibill: we’re content to just let those outliers rot, because it is more important that we remain pragmatic, never question existing institutio...
• Mona: Children, very young children, are required to be taught that homosexuality is normal and healthy. Required by whom, and what is the precis...
• Dain: As far as I know, the drug approval process - and regulation generally - is more lax in Europe, on the whole. And since most here want us to be more l...
• Joel Schlosberg: Here's a Georgist analysis of Star Trek: http://www.progress.org/archive/fold284.htm...
• b-psycho: Children, very young children, are required to be taught that homosexuality is normal and healthy. Google for Silo and Roy. ...
• Keith Preston: The core function of pharmaceutical regulation is to provide monopoly privilege to pharmaceutical manufacturers by raising obstacles to competition an...
• quasibill: "The real distinction is between a society where safety functions are dispersed and where they are centralized." The more I work through all this, ...
• Jennifer Abel: The problem is that the FDA has gone far beyond its original function -- that of making sure ingredients were labeled honestly, and that medicines did...
• Daphne: Tylenol, and the other jackasses, are so wrong about increasing suicides by stronger labeling. Indicating that something causes organ damage and fai...
• Keith Preston: "In practice, government schools are used to impose a culture determined at the center and imposed on the masses, by an elite that visualizes itself a...
• Kurt Horner: Of course, the problem is, if we have to wait to be alerted to every danger through personal stories like these, we’d probably still be blind to 9...
• smally: Angelica, Jason's point probably is that the man described in this post was in severe pain for which Tylenol is not at all effective. Hence the excess...
• Jamie Coville: Very interesting. But I do feel I should correct you on something. Kirby didn't jump to DC in the 60s because of a "gentleman's agreement." He got in ...
• quasibill: Smally, I would argue that the comment gets it half right. Many Austrians (not all, by any stretch, and in this instance, usually only the ones wh...
• James A. Donald: Mona says: # Mona Says: # # "Well, I wish I was a lesbian. ... I am attracted to men who are toxic for me." Most women are. The seduction comm...
• Angelica: Jason, Yeah, and there's no way to overdose on morphine, right? Oh, I forget. There's no harm done by lack of regulation that can't be undone by e...
• James A. Donald: hat school policies are locally determined is no more true than that paying income tax is "voluntary" - local determination is a legal formality, not ...
• Keith Preston: Ajay, I'm not quite sure I follow your point, but proponents of "free love" advocated abolition of marriage as an institution altogether. And, no, ...
• Jason Kuznicki: Should a free market mentality really apply to pharmaceuticals? Absolutely, and your example actually proves it. In a free market for...