A Global Goring 

George Bush says that ethanol will save the world. But there is evidence that biofuels may bring new problems for the planet.
The ethanol boom is coming. The twin threats of climate change and energy security are creating an unprecedented thirst for alternative energy with ethanol leading the way.
 
That process is set to reach a landmark [...]

You may remember a couple of months ago when Sen. Barack Obama lectured Americans that “we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
So imagine our surprise yesterday when we [...]

A new regulatory regime from our environmental bureaucrats would grind the economy to a halt.
Opponents of massive new energy taxes and regulations breathed a small sigh of relief last month when the Lieberman-Warner climate-tax bill went down in flames on the Senate floor. Even 10 Democrats broke from the party line and voted against it, [...]

The Institute for Energy Research have a great new video that asks regular people at gas stations why they think the price of gas is so high.  At first they provide the usual knee-jerk reaction: Blame Big Oil.
But when confronted with a few little-known facts, they start to change their tunes.  Check it out:
 

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Dennis Miller’s ‘The Buck Starts Here’ discusses Global Warming.

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Gore recently held an environmental rally in Washington, D.C. A brave man with a camera was there as Gore supporters arrived via taxi cabs, even though Al Gore encouraged attendees to use public transportation or bicycles. With a bus stop within 0.03 miles of the venue, those interviewed were too inconvenienced, or ignorant [...]

Gore wants the United States to use 100% clean and renewable energy in 10 years.  Unlike John F. Kennedy’s call for a moon landing, Gore’s call for action is completely impractical.  For starters, the environmentalists won’t let us build a nuclear plant.  Nuclear is clean and safe but after decades of scare tactics by the [...]

To understand the whole global warming debate you have to understand that it is not about any dramatic warming of the Earth. The Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age with time out for some mini-Ice Age episodes.
As Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at [...]

The ethanol subsidy is worse than you can imagine.
Running on empty: Is ethanol the answer?
 
 
 
For the last generation, ethanol has been America’s fuel of the future. But there has never been more hype about it than there is today. Green-energy analysts like Amory Lovins, environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, neoconservatives like James [...]

Big Oil choosing stock over exploration <—To see vido click link
AP - Mon Jul 21, 4:33 PM ET
HOUSTON - As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?

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