Just asking. Because nothing that competes with $90+ per barrel for oil needs a production subsidy, assuming for a moment that it ever did. If biofuels are worth making at all, then the makers must be making money hand over fist right now, eh? So why are we pouring state subsidies and production equipment tax [...]

Why Hasn’t John Edwards Done Better? Sam Smith When Democrats talk about things they don’t like about John Edwards, they typically express skepticism about a wealthy trial lawyer advocating populist positions or his $400 haircut or the size of his 10,000 square foot home and 15,000 square foot barn. These same Democrats – and the [...]

Jack Bog’s Blog has a great post highlighting the GOP love for Hilary — good reason for progressives to know which candidate to avoid.  Today’s sign was a valentine to Hilary by the execrable Charles Krauthammer.  That the GOP and the right wing are falling in line for her says one of two things: 1) [...]

Because Big Tobacco is replacing smokers just as fast as it kills them.

An intelligent plan. Here.

Short answer: because biofuels are about taking money from people who are going to be extremely hard-pressed and giving it to corporations in the guise of a futile attempt to preserve the fantasy that we can maintain an auto-based life. There’s the direct problem with the policy, but even more that that is the problem [...]

From today’s David Sarasohn column: Food banks — and the people who depend on them — are being hit by a combination of table-clearing typhoons. As food companies and processors get ever more efficient, contributions of excess and irregular food packages decline. Donations from farmers are lower than usual this time of year, said Food [...]

The tempest in a teapot over my criticisms of biofuels (and especially of the post blasting Oregon League of Conservation Voters’ decision to grade legislators up or down based on whether they support using tax dollars and subsidizing them) and the criticism of Onward Oregon for allowing me to post under a nom de plume [...]

Punchline:  the supposed greenhouse gas benefit to North American biofuels is lost to N20 created from fertilizers.

The right to dry.  On a clothesline.