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A great post by Ryan Avent critiquing the notion of "sunk costs," particularly as (speciously) applied to suburbia. In particular, Avent shows why, when talking about suburban housing, the concept of "sunk cost" is not (or should not be) a disincentive to selling.

Tags: the_bellows, ryan_avent, oil, peak_oil, suburbia, transportation, sunk_costs, economics on 2008-11-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

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NYT article on the problems around "the other oil crisis," triggered not in small measure by our (West's) desire to circumvent fossil fuel dependence by relying on biofuels.

Tags: crops, energy, ethanol, food, fuel, geopolitics, oil, palm_oil on 2008-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: 1973, architecture, canadian_centre_for_architecture, christopher_hume, energy, energy_crisis, exhibitions, oil on 2007-11-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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