Tax Bill and Ethanol:Tax Abuse Reward & Pollution
The current Obama-Republican tax bill includes an extension of the ethanol tax breaks for American farmers and processors...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Wed. - Deepwater Drilling to Resume, Enivironment be Damned -...
You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #451. ROV #450 is here.Bookmark this link to find the latest Gulf Watchers diaries.Follow the Gulf Watchers tag on DK4 by going here and...
View ArticleFlash: Industry still pursuing wrong biofuel
Ars Technica has a very interesting article this morning on biofuels vis a vis global warming.My problem with it is that they are looking at the wrong fuel.
View ArticleMight as well face it you're addicted to...
porn. Yup, this nation has a serious porn addiction and we need to get over it. And if we don’t it’ll eventually kill us. Think I’m joking? Well think again.
View ArticleEnergy security, my foot!
Tomorrow, President Obama will be speaking on energy security. If his speech will be anything like prior speeches, he'll mention wind and solar in the same breath as natural gas, nuclear power, and...
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Need Revenue? -- END the BIG OIL Subsidies!
Back during the last SOTU speech President Obama inspired some hope, in this Green-Eco-heart of mine ...STATE OF THE UNION: Obama pushes clean energy as part of his new centrist agenda Katherine Ling,...
View ArticleBig News! Ethanol Subsidies Defeated in Senate!
BloombergThe U.S. Senate voted to eliminate a tax credit and a tariff that subsidize ethanol production, providing the strongest signal yet that Congress will curtail subsidies for corn-based biofuel....
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Senate vote won't end ethanol subsidy but could mark the beginning of the end
Cheers greeted the Senate's Thursday 73-27 vote for an amendment to eliminate a tax credit for blenders of ethanol and a tariff against foreign imports of the product. But the vote will end neither....
View ArticleWhen is an end to ethanol subsidies not an end to ethanol subsidies?
Q.: When is an end to ethanol subsidies not an end to ethanol subsidies?A.: When it's part of the Feinstein-Klobuchar-Thune deal.The good news: The three Senators' deal eliminates the $2 billion...
View ArticleIndustrial Hemp can save America
Growing industrial hemp on just 6% of American lands would produce 100% of our energy needs. We don't need one drop of stinking fossil fuels. Heep seed oil is an excellent biodiesel which produces far...
View Article$3.19 a gallon for high performance fuel?
Bring On the Blender Pumps!Yesterday I rolled up to the pump at the co-op in Hendricks, Minnesota and examined my options. Let's see- gasoline with 10% ethanol for $3.49 a gallon, E20 (20% ethanol) for...
View ArticleCarbon Dioxide Emissions From Plug In Hybrids.
No self-respecting liberal can help but have sympathy with the famous and much hyped "Occupy Wall Street" movement, although my own suspicion is that at the end of the day it will mean very little...
View ArticleThere is a Transformational Shift in The Corn Belt As Well
Reuters recently published an article about soaring prices for farmland in America's Midwest and Plains states. At at recent auction in Iowa, a 60 acre parcel recently sold for $420,000. At $7,000 an...
View ArticleGOP SIMPLE: You'll have to pry incandescent bulbs, "pure" gasoline from their...
If you're Republican, sometimes life's just as simple as this:Fred Banaszak of Colgate, Wisconsin, wrote a letter to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In the letter, which ran this morning, he recounts...
View ArticleNow Wait Just a Tea Party Minute...
Once a week they meet at the Golden Corral to commiserate on how everything would be better if the representatives would just "vote right".Looking at the minutes of the Crystal Coast Tea Party Meeting...
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SD-Sen: Gov. Daugaard (R) Appoints Ethanol Crony To Buy Senate Election For...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Dugaard (R)In an effort to help secure and buy the Senate seat for his old boss, Former Governor and U.S. Senate candidate, Mike "Abortion Ban" Rounds (R. SD), current...
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SD-Sen: Tim Johnson (D) Urges President Obama To Not Negotiate On The Debt...
U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D. SD) was on local South Dakota radio calling out the GOP for their obstructionism in the debt ceiling fight and urged the President to stand strong on the debt ceiling:...
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SD-Sen: Tim Johnson (D) Supports President Obama's Proposal for Universal...
So the recurring theme I keep seeing in articles about the upcoming gun control plan President Obama wants to pass is, "red state Democrats squeamish about gun control". I'm hearing a lot of news...
View ArticlePass the water
By now most have seen Marco Rubio with his infamous water bottle grab and gulp routine. No doubt the writers of Saturday Night Live are already working out a skit to honor Rubio's performance.While...
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SD-Sen: U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson (D) Speculated To Run For His Father's...
Well here's some interesting news from South Dakota: http://www.argusleader.com/... Although South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson has not said whether he intends to seek re-election 2014, some Democrats are...
View Article2013 12 Hours of Sebring
The 12 Hours of Sebring is the oldest running Sports Car race in North America and this year is the 61st running. Taking place in Sebring, Florida on an old army airfield base that hasn't been repaved...
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SD-Sen: Karl Rove's Super PAC & Tea Party Are Just Not That Into Mike Rounds (R)
I'm working on a much bigger diary on this race. An analysis about why the press would love to see a Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D. SD) vs. Kristi Noem (R. SD) rematch next year. But today I will...
View ArticleLegalizing Hemp: Something Ralph Nader and Rand Paul can agree on
The legalization of hemp initiative is finally ramping up and politicians, pundits, economists and scientists are speaking out in favor of this common sense solution to a number of challenges our...
View ArticleA Market in Desperate Need of Transparency
I have written many, many times about Wall Street and its rotten practices, and how their reckless decisions are hurting families. For years now, we've known that Wall Street had too much influence...
View ArticleLarge-scale investment to stimulate economy, reduce carbon emissions (ORANGE...
More weather extremes, plus reduced agricultural yield, plus droughts, plus dwindling marine life as a result of growing ocean acidification, are what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists...
View ArticleThe Ethanol Mandate Needs to Be Reformed
I have written before about the market manipulation going on in ethanol, a classic case of Wall Street speculators driving up prices for everyone else, and using government subsidies to do it. Beyond...
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Sunday Train: Is Dirty Ethanol Here to Stay?
The AP Reports (courtesy of yahoo):The failure so far of cellulosic fuel is central to the debate over corn-based ethanol, a centerpiece of America's green-energy strategy. Ethanol from corn has proven...
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IA-Sen: Joni Ernst (R), "If Obama had left troops in Iraq we wouldn’t have...
ABC News' Jeff Zeleny recently sat down with U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst (R. IA) to discuss her campaign for Senator Tom Harkin's (D. IA) seat: http://abcnews.go.com/... Joni Ernst is not...
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IA-Sen: NextGen Hits Joni Ernst (R) Over Big Oil Fundraiser In New Ad
They're stepping their game up here:http://www.desmoinesregister.com/... NextGen Climate, the environmental advocacy group that is one of the top players in Iowa's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, is...
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IA-Sen: Bruce Braley (D) Releases New Blistering Ad Attacking Ernst (R) On...
Yes!http://talkingpointsmemo.com/... Rep. Bruce Braley's (D-IA) Senate campaign released a new ad Thursday hitting Republican opponent state Sen. Joni Ernst on her sponsorship of a "personhood...
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Lower Oil Prices in an EV World
What do declining oil prices mean for alternative fueled vehicles, plug-in hybrids and EVs? If anything is to be learned from the past periods where gasoline prices have dropped precipitously it is...
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Gov. Scott Walker switches positions on yet another issue
Whatever you want, suckers. Don't like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's stance on an issue, Iowa voters? Just wait ten minutes, it'll change.But last weekend, within the borders of corn-rich Iowa—the...
View Article'Litigation, Lobbying and Defiance': Why the Republicans Don't Need the White...
Unfortunately, it sometimes takes me a while to get around to reading each new issue of Harper’s. Yesterday morning, I finally read the cover feature of the February 2016 issue, “The Trouble With Iowa:...
View ArticleGas and Grass: New Ads with Old Myths
Being a presidential election year, it’s no surprise that TV ads are getting political. But two new campaigns demonstrate it’s not just the election that’s getting attention, as climate and energy...
View ArticleThanks to an accidental discovery, we can turn CO2 into ethanol
Last time I wrote about carbon sequestration, I commented that I always viewed it as “one of those "10 years off" technologies”. Something that sounds cool, game-changing, but for some reason(s) it was...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Part 1 on the need for a humane socialist U.S....
On a Sunday in October 1981 (either the one before or the one after the first World Food Day, www.worldfooddayusa.org/...), I spoke in a Southern Baptist pulpit for the first and last time. The topic...
View ArticleTrump adviser Carl Icahn is advising government to cut the regulations that...
Campaign ActionMeet the Swamp.Since Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, was named by President Trump as a special adviser on regulatory matters, he has been busy working behind the scenes to try to...
View ArticleBret Stephens Continues Shoveling BS into Times Opinion Section
Here we go again. Bret Stephens, apparently riding high on a wave of hate-clicks, has another column that yet again deceives readers with a bait and switch. In his second column, Stephens takes on...
View ArticleTotal coincidence: Trump calls chair of committee where Trump Jr. just agreed...
On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. agreed to provide a “transcribed interview”for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.On Wednesday, by an astounding coincidence, Donald Trump called the chairman of...
View ArticleIowa is souring on Trump—just look at what its GOP senators are saying about him
Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is "about as swampy as you can get,"says one GOP senator, adding, "if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look...
View ArticleWith farmers souring on him, Trump drops goodies on corn country
You know your party is facing stiff headwinds in a state when the deep-red district of a fire-breather like Iowa Rep. Steve King gets downgraded to “likely Republican” by Cook Political Report.With his...
View ArticleTrump promise to corn farmers may be a victim of Trump government shutdown
Donald Trump’s shutdown may be yet another way he’s doing farmers no favors. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, in this case. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was working on a plan to...
View ArticleFarmers are freaking out as Trump's trade war batters their business, but...
Donald Trump’s trade war and ethanol policy are costing farmers big-time, but they’re still sticking by their man—for now. Farm bankruptcies and loan delinquencies are up, and agricultural exports to...
View ArticleTrump: 'Farmers are going to be so happy.' Pro tip: Farmers are not happy
After the Trump administration screwed farmers by allowing some 30 oil refineries exemptions from blending ethanol into fuel, Donald Trump had news Thursday for devastated corn farmers. "The Farmers...
View ArticleTrump is 'tired' of dealing with the ethanol mess he created
Governing is hard. People expect things, and when you mess up, they complain. And Donald Trump has had just about enough of this ethanol situation he created.“The president is tired of dealing with...
View ArticleFarmers are being hit from all sides by Trump. Now Perdue says their family...
Since the beginning of the administration, the Trump team seems to have gone out of its way to hurt American farmers despite (as any New York Times story featuring a diner will suggest) farmers' status...
View ArticleUS ethanol industry collapse, due to COVID, results in a lack of refrigerants...
Yet another blow to our food supply delivery system.From Reuters:NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A slew of U.S. ethanol plants have shut down as fuel demand has collapsed during the coronavirus outbreak,...
View ArticleIA-Sen: Joni Ernst's (R) Vote To Confirm Trump's EPA Head Is Hurting Her...
When you bear hug Trump, this is what you get:‘Iowa senator Joni Ernst signed on to a letter begging EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler – whom she voted to put into office – to reject retroactive biofuel...
View ArticleFight against carbon capture pipeline unites communities in 5 states
A planned carbon capture pipeline that would be the largest of its kind faces opposition from communities in every state the 2,000-mile pipeline and its accompanying facilities would extend into....
View ArticleCrash! Boom! Goes Another Freight Train - Updated
UPDATE: Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 · 6:44:18 PM +00:00·FlannelGuyFrom Minnesota Public Radio:Updated 1 p.m.A train derailment sent 22 cars carrying ethanol and corn syrup off the tracks early Thursday...
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