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Author: Robert CohenRobert Cohen Date: Jan 23, 2008 20:02
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Author: Bret CahillBret Cahill Date: Jan 23, 2008 20:13
> Yes, I the opinionated & cynical type am actually impressed by this,
> and more companies should be emulating and utilizing similar ideas.
"Mr. Scott said, for instance, that Wal-Mart is talking to leaders of
the automobile industry about selling electric or hybrid cars -- and
might even install windmills in its parking lots so customers could
recharge their cars with renewable electricity."
Well, at least some engineers and scientists will get a chuckle out of
this.
In the meantime I'll keep my bicycles' tires pumped up.
Bret Cahill
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Author: Bret CahillBret Cahill Date: Jan 23, 2008 20:25
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>> "Mr. Scott said, for instance, that Wal-Mart is talking to leaders of
>> the automobile industry about selling electric or hybrid cars -- and
>> might even install windmills in its parking lots so customers could
>> recharge their cars with renewable electricity."
>
>> Well, at least some engineers and scientists will get a chuckle out of
>> this.
>
>> In the meantime I'll keep my bicycles' tires pumped up.
>
>> Bret Cahill
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> The "Wal-Mart environmental moment" starts with the C.E.O. adopting a
> green branding strategy as a purely defensive, public relations,
> marketing move. Then an accident happens -- someone in the shipping
> department takes it seriously and comes up with a new way to package ...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Jan 23, 2008 22:49
On Jan 23, 8:25 pm, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:>
>>> "Mr. Scott said, for instance, that Wal-Mart is talking to leaders of
>>> the automobile industry about selling electric or hybrid cars -- and
>>> might even install windmills in its parking lots so customers could
>>> recharge their cars with renewable electricity."
>
>>> Well, at least some engineers and scientists will get a chuckle out of
>>> this.
>
>>> In the meantime I'll keep my bicycles' tires pumped up.
>
>>> Bret Cahill
>
>> The "Wal-Mart environmental moment" starts with the C.E.O. adopting a
>> green branding strategy as a purely defensive, public relations,
>> marketing move. Then an accident happens -- someone in the shipping ...
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Author: Michael GordgeMichael Gordge Date: Jan 23, 2008 23:10
On Jan 24, 3:49 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
> What do you mean by an energy balance?
It means, getting nowhere.
Its the treehugger coming out in Bwet.
MG
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Author: Fred WeissFred Weiss Date: Jan 24, 2008 05:48
On Jan 23, 11:20 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
> The "Wal-Mart environmental moment" starts with the C.E.O. adopting a
> green branding strategy as a purely defensive, public relations,
> marketing move.
Yes, I'm afraid so and it's a long-standing practice of appeasement by
capitalists of their enemies, which in the long run never really helps
them. What they should do instead is stand up to them and instead of
supporting PBS, etc in some vain attempt to curry favor they should
pour millions into funding those dreaded "market" economists and their
think tanks which Brat so loathes.
>Then an accident happens -- someone in the shipping
> department takes it seriously and comes up with a new way to package
> the latest product and saves $100,000.
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Author: Bret CahillBret Cahill Date: Jan 24, 2008 06:26
> instead of
> supporting PBS, etc in some vain attempt to curry favor they should
> pour millions into funding those dreaded "market" economists and their
> think tanks which Brat so loathes.
The shills already have millions. Millions more won't save them if
are too cowardly to answer a simple question pertaining to free
markets.
All I have to do is offer $200 for an answer to The Question and they
are outed as frauds.
That's what forced Karl Rove to abandon the free marketry rhetoric of
the Gipper.
The "market" economists could no longer provide Republicon politicians
with any cover.
Bret Cahill
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Author: Bret CahillBret Cahill Date: Jan 24, 2008 06:56
> The "Wal-Mart environmental moment" starts with the C.E.O. adopting a
> green branding strategy as a purely defensive, public relations,
> marketing move.
It's mostly to provide another rationale for customers to shop at
Walmart. Walmart actually has a very valid argument that one stop
shopping saves a lot of gas.
The windmill isn't serious but Walmart could easily afford to cover
their roofs with that $1/watt PV and use that to power parking lot
plugs as well as their store.
If Nanosolar isn't ready then Walmart could buy Nanosolar to get
things moving.
DuPont Chemical is always way ahead of EPA regulations. They actually
save money by reducing their discharges.
Bret Cahill
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Author: Fred WeissFred Weiss Date: Jan 24, 2008 08:09
On Jan 24, 9:26 am, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:
> ... Millions more won't save them if
> are too cowardly to answer a simple question pertaining to free
> markets.
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> All I have to do is offer $200 for an answer to The Question and they
> are outed as frauds.
Why don't you start by offering it to yourself? It's pretty clear that
you don't have the answer.
I've called your bluff many times before and have yet to be wrong.
Fred Weiss
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Author: Bret CahillBret Cahill Date: Jan 24, 2008 11:16
>> ... Millions more won't save them if
>> are too cowardly to answer a simple question pertaining to free
>> markets.
>> All I have to do is offer $200 for an answer to The Question and they
>> are outed as frauds.
> Why don't you start by offering it to yourself?
I'm not an outspoken "market" economist at Hoover, Heritage Am.
Enterprise, the Chicago School, von Mises, Cato etc.
> It's pretty clear that
> you don't have the answer.
My answer, as everyone except the clueless knows, is in the public
record.
In fact, I even cite Rand.
Bret cahill
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