The Economist of 6th December, 2007 (full story, requires login) writes about U.S. subsidies for ethanol:
In other words, the demands of America’s ethanol programme alone account for over half the world’s unmet need for cereals. Without that programme, food prices would not be rising anything like as quickly as they have been. According to the […]
The New Statesman had an article (in August) criticising the New Approach to Appraisal (Nata) rules for road building in the UK. Basically, Nata is a cost-benefit analysis framework for assessing proposals of road building projects, introduced by Labour in 1998.
The author comes down hard against Nata. He’s right in that some of the […]
You wouldn’t really think the Dutch needed public commercials trying to get more people to cycle, but there it is. Even if you don’t understand any Dutch (I don’t), it’s brilliant to watch these clips. Everyone is wearing everyday clothes. Cycling not as some sort of extreme sport, but as an everyday activity that is […]