We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to…
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Subsidizing green energy is like supporting operator-assisted telephones with party lines
The whole idea of green energy—renewable resources—grew out of an energy reality that was much different from today’s. It was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that solar panels began popping up on rooftops and “gasohol” subsidies were…
Obamacare and ethanol are bad for America – for many of the same reasons
Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of Obamacare. If it were front and center of the news cycle, as Obamacare is, most would also have the same repeal-or-revise attitude regarding ethanol mandates as the…
Ethanol, high gas prices, and the dirty politics behind clean energy
Gas pump signage declaring “contains up to 10% ethanol” is so ubiquitous, most of us probably don’t even see it anymore—let alone think about why it is there, what it really means, or how it impacts the price of the…
