Will the time come when we ask ourselves, “do I serve this wonderful yellow corn for dinner, or do I need to save it for my gas tank?” Continue reading
Tag Archives: biofuel mandates
Burning corn in a famine: The obscenity of the corn ethanol mandate
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels
Tagged biofuel boondoggle, biofuel mandates, burning food, ethanol mandates, really stupid idea
GHEI: Crop cronyism
Trillion-dollar farm bill is the latest example of what’s wrong with our economy Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Economics
Tagged biofuel mandates, ethanol mandates, really stupid idea, rent seeking
Fraud Case Shows Holes in Exchange of Fuel Credits
Gary L. Miller knew something was afoot in the garage rented out behind his auto equipment business. Through an open door, Mr. Miller glimpsed piles of pipes, polyethylene tanks and pumps. But nothing was hooked up. Nothing was being made. So it came as a surprise — to say the least — when he learned that the tenant, Rodney R. Hailey, had told a federal agency that he would produce millions of gallons of biodiesel fuel there. Continue reading
Grim Portrait of Palm Oil Emissions
Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world’s top 10 greenhouse gas emitters. It’s not because of smokestacks or freeways, but massive deforestation starting in the 1990s — driven in large part by the expansion of plantations for palm oil, an edible vegetable oil used in cookies, crackers, soap and European diesel fuel. Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Clean energy, Climate Change, Deforestation
Tagged biodiesel, biofuel, biofuel mandates, climate hysteria
