May

3

A Look At Food vs. Fuel – Missing the Whole Equation

May 3, 2011 | 7 Comments

Mary Kissel writing in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) looks into what C. Larry Pope, the chief executive of Smithfield Foods, Inc. is saying about the price of food and his effort to paint fuel use of agricultural products as a prime culprit for the increase in meat prices. Before we start, the Wall Street […]

Aug

13

A New Kind of Patent

August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment

This writer was asked in an email a couple days ago about what the non-committed, seemingly idealism free, and generally pro commerce view is here about incentives for energy and fuel production. It is an arena fraught with special interests of every stripe including the environment itself to the consumers ranging from wealthy to dirt […]

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