Our Daily Bleg: How Much Does Ice-Making Contribute to Global Warming?
A reader wants to know: How much energy is wasted each year by making ice cubes for all the cold soft drinks that Americans consume?
A reader wants to know: How much energy is wasted each year by making ice cubes for all the cold soft drinks that Americans consume?
Is it likely that we’ll follow the perfectly rational incentives designed by benevolent governmental guardians to reduce obesity? Fat chance.
A reader named Ben Muschel of Flushing, N.Y. (that’s where Citi Field is), writes in with a question that he admits is trivial.
The American Beverage Association has just announced its recommendation that elementary schools no longer sell soda pop in vending machines. “Childhood obesity is a real problem,” ABA president and CEO Susan Neely told the Associated Press. (Here is the A.P. article in USA Today.) “The individual companies [represented by the ABA] have been doing several things to be part of . . .