The advent of corn ethanol subsidies is a case study in the role money can play in politics.
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Power Struggle: Division Within Biofuels Community Complicates the Energy Equation
Obama pushes up oil, gas and electric rates as he promised
Obama seems to be doing everything in his power to increase the price of gasoline, oil and all forms of energy in America.
John Thune kills presidential hopes with ethanol deal
Thune’s 2012 hopes won’t get out of South Dakota with his paid support of the worst corporate welfare waste of taxpayer money. Ethanol subsidies are opposed by a bipartisan coalition of conservatives and environmental groups.
The Sierra Club’s Mission
The Earth worshipers pose a clear and present danger to America’s energy supply, and therefore to the people’s health and wealth.
National Barack Channel NBC’s owner GE gets payoff in spending bill
GE gets $430 million for an engine nobody wants. Defense Secretary Robert Gates opposes the GE engine as unnecessary and a waste of money.
D.C. Dim Bulbs Outlaw Edison’s Greatest Gift
Banning a product that has been used safely for more than 100 years in favor of Chinese imported CFLs that pose considerable health risks is yet another example of more government intrusion into Americans’ personal lives.”
The Fine Art of Seduction
The victors of the 2010 midterm elections haven’t even been sworn into office and already they are being initiated into the ways of Washington – a world where money buys influence and careerism trumps constituent service.
Former DHS Chertoff and $4.5 million in lobbying brought full body scanners
Airport security lobbying drives security process not terrorism. Welcome to the best government money can buy.
US still on hook for $27 Billion with GM stock sale
In addition to what legitimate creditors lost when Obama illegally gave ownership shares to the auto workers union, the GM stock sale being propagandized as a success still leaves US taxpayers holding the empty bag.
Demosclerosis
What demosclerosis means for conservatives is that there is no significant hope of scraping away outmoded or unneeded or counterproductive liberal policies, because nothing old can be jettisoned.