Tag: models

June 5, 2013 0

All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Fascinating

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

May 25, 2013 0

Gradually-increasing gas tax that’s buffered against price shocks

By News Desk

Tweet That’s the answer. The question is what’s better environmentally and economically than the current situation of an inadequate gas tax and a price that swings widely. We need to increase the gas tax, a lot, to cover the economic externalities, decrease overconsumption, accelerate the transition away from internal combustion engines, and pay for infrastructure previously paid for by gas taxes on inefficient engines.