KVS Marshall - ManicBeancounter

What is the global price of gas? Is it NBP or Henry Hub? When you discover the answer you will also discover there is no global gas price, unlike oil. Also, the more oil/gas we extract ourselves, the better for our balance of payments = able to run economy at faster rate. Also, the better for government revenues = more public spending or tax cuts. Also, creates more high-paid jobs = more tax revenues. Also, extracting oil/gas from North Sea a lot cheaper than shipping in from abroad. Also, a lot fewer emissions. Now, what is about the benefits of more North Sea drilling you still don’t understand? If still puzzled just ask the Norwegians, who are fellow social democrats but unlike Starmer-Reeves-Miliband Labour have a firm grasp of energy economics.

“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” — Friedrich Hayek

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1/ This analysis is very out of date. Rigorous academic studies show that in nearly 90% of cases rent controls lead to price reductions. And there are lots of examples where careful design mitigates risks to housing supply and quality.

Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem… But the data say something very different. Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger. Not your grocery bag in Colorado. Not your straw in D.C. A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage. The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream. Because if you solve it quickly and directly… there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”

Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem… But the data say something very different. Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger. Not your grocery bag in Colorado. Not your straw in D.C. A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage. The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream. Because if you solve it quickly and directly… there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”