Different Ways to Spend the Money Budgeted for Energy
Posted by Jim Harper
Dan Neil of the L.A. Times writes about his alternative proposal for spending on federal energy programs:
[T]he U.S. Department of Energy budgetary request for fiscal 2010 is $65 billion, including nearly $40 billion from the National Economic Recovery Act. The 2010 Toyota Prius will probably come in around $23,000 when prices are announced later this [...]
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Record Deficit – Whose Fault? Your Friends. Maybe You.
Posted by Jim Harper
I was struck this morning by a news report on the record budget deficit: $482 billion. That’s about $4,800 per U.S. family or $1,500 per person. The report cited an administration official as saying that the deficit was being driven to an all-time high “by the sagging economy and the stimulus payments being [...]
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