The disastrous state subsidies for agrofuels piled on top of the federal ones.  Here’s a must-read story on Another pair of studies showing that ethanol–both corn AND switchgrass flavors–is WORSE for climate change than petroleum. In other words, Big Ag has persuaded us to pour gas on the climate fire. Spending millions to prop up [...]

Nothing but a way for corporations to appear to be responding to the concerns (the climate crisis and the looming peak oil problem for Big Oil and the carmakers, the Surgeon General’s report for Big Tobacco) without changing a goddamned thing or letting go of a single dollar.

BlueOregon has a post about the latest attempt to throw tax dollars at the wrong people working on the wrong part of the wrong problem statement. Meanwhile, we still have a few remaining shards of a once-proud (and widely envied) rail system that haven’t completely decayed — oops, wait, there goes another piece in SW [...]

Presidential hopefuls are treading lightly on Social Security, but it’s shaping up to be an important issue in the 2008 general election. Meanwhile, the first baby boomer applies for Social Security… Boomers read on. This is our chance to right the wrongs of Social Security and to realize the dignity in retirement that we’ve earned.

Well, at 8:45 it appears that Measure 49 will pass, thank God, which means that people who backed Measure 37 should be happy and those who opposed Measure 37 will be breathing a huge sigh of relief: Measure 49 gives Measure 37 backers everything they said they wanted, so everybody should be happy now.  The [...]

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 [...]

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

An intelligent plan. Here.

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

Following precisely the pattern demonstrated by the Clueless One with his surge in Iraq, Oregon League of Conservation Voters (OLCV) gives a pat on the back to the Oregon legislators who helped distort and weaken our energy systems even further by voting yes for HB 2210 in their new 2007 session legislative scorecard. The biofuels [...]