Comments on: The Cheese Stands Alone https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-72419 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:22:15 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2452#comment-72419 So it’s ok if you use most methods, if not all, regardless of the damage that follows, and you’re relatively weak?

]]> By: Barry https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-72412 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:42:06 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2452#comment-72412 “I think right now the country has its hands full enough with one small minority with strong views asserting the unconstrained right to have those views be the only possible or permissible policy controlling the future of the whole. ”

Wrong. We’re suffering from the fact that (a) they’ll use all methods (including illegal ones, such as voter suppression) to get their way, no matter who gets hurt, and (b) they have the backing of powerful interests.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-72405 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:34:36 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2452#comment-72405 In reply to DensityDuck.

I don’t consider it to have anything to do with environmental concerns. The point is that market-capture looks a lot better when the market for solar improves further–already there’s a lot of installation of solar going on because Chinese overproduction has pushed the price low enough to be worth it. If the folks who point out that fossil fuels are at a lower price than they should be due to existing governmental subsidies (US and otherwise) are right, if even a few of those subsidies were removed, then solar and other non-fossil fuel might be even more favored in price terms.

]]> By: DensityDuck https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-72404 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:01:50 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2452#comment-72404 I find it amusing that you consider the Chinese government’s subsidies of solar-panel production to be based in environmental concerns, rather than a market-capture effort.

]]> By: Justin https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/10/03/the-cheese-stands-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-72397 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:41:31 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2452#comment-72397 Am with you but the argument seems a lot simpler to me. 1. Don’t like oil companies. 2. Anything that (seemingly) hurts them without (seeming to) hurt me much = jackpot. Anyone hesitant about 2. must also be hesitant about 1. and not hating oil companies at Swarthmore = obviously evil dingus.

Too cynical?

Just found the blog. Really like it.

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