Even though ethanol uses more energy to produce than gas, causes lower gas mileage per gallon and pollutes more than it helps, and increases the debt the US congress continues the bipartisan ethanol subsidies to big corporations in return for big campaign contributions. The result is higher food corn prices which cause higher food prices including meat and dairy products.
Archive for Category: "Global Warming & Environment"
The EPA’s Fantastic Clean Air Fictions
“The EPA relies on health studies that exaggerate harm and economic studies that understate regulatory costs in order to maintain the fiction that its ever-more stringent regulations are providing meaningful public health benefits,”
EPA Blocks Thousands of Jobs, Billions in Tax Revenue by Stalling Pipeline
The latest delay of the 1,700-mile XL Keystone pipeline – under consideration by Canada and the United States since 2008 – follows the Environmental Protection Agency’s demand that the State Department produce a second environmental impact statement (EIS) after deeming the first one “inadequate.” – CNSNews
McConnell accuses Obama of driving up gas prices
“Fourteen million Americans are looking for work. Gas prices are approaching $4 a gallon. And the Obama administration wants unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to impose new regulations that will destroy even more jobs – and drive gas prices even higher.”
27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than Either The Mainstream Media Or The Japanese Government Have Been Telling Us
If radiation released by a damaged nuclear reactor got up into the jet stream, the first major land mass that it would encounter would be North America. In fact, the jet stream commonly takes air from over Japan directly over the west coast of the United States.
More Americans in favor of drill here, drill now
Gallup has determined that a majority of Americans favor offshore drilling and a plurality are for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska (ANWR) with both findings showing increases over last year.
Obama caught lying about oil production policy
Dana Perino seemed surprised that the administration “allows Obama to say things that are so quickly proven false”. She pointed out Obama’s claim that his policies have increased oil production and he has not contributed to higher gas prices. “The facts are standing in the way of their rhetoric.”
What Will You Do When the Lights Go Out?
We’ve allowed demagogues preaching a false gospel of man-made global warming chanting songs of pollution hysteria while serving sacraments of social guilt to give our enemies a chokehold on our energy artery.
Geithner Unwittingly Makes Case for Drill Baby Drill
That’s the message we’ve been broadcasting for quite some time now: the way to boost economic output, provide more affordable energy, and ease the government’s fiscal problem is to unshackle the producers of domestic energy.
Citizen activists fight UN Agenda 21 and ICLEI
The UN Agenda 21 is implemented under sweet sounding terms like “smart growth”, “sustainable growth”, “sustainable development” and ICLEI (”International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives”)