corn ethanol

I don’t have much to add, but I highly recommend this post from Jim Voorhies, and this post from Mack the Coyote. Apparently corn ethanol, in addition to lowering your vehicle’s gas mileage, is highly corrosive to small engines. I didn’t know that. Just about every gas station these days sells gas with a little [...]

Now I understand why “the Obama” is continues to tout and support corn ethanol. ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) is based in Illinois but since lobbyists have no control over Obama I’m sure that he wouldn’t have received any campaign funds from the evil energy giant called ADM.
Oh, he has? Like riding [...]

Great article today in the New York Times about Obama’s ties to Big Corn Ethanol. As the article reveals, Obama is neither a change candidate, nor in any way clean when it comes to corporate money, and the influence money has on his policy positions.
Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking [...]

The Nashville City Paper takes the boys over at the Tennessee Center For Policy Research to task for calling a program to explore the possibilty of turning switchgrass into ethanol “pork.”

The price of corn has reached $6 per bushel for the first time ever.

Like most of you, I have taken notice of how our government’s subsidizing of corn ethanol has increased the price of food, while doing nothing about the price of gasoline. But like everybody else, I have sit idly by and done nothing.
But after hearing about this, I don’t think I can take it anymore. Raising [...]

I wrote about "The coming 500 mpg car" earlier this month to explore whether the technology presently exists to improve fuels efficiencies enough to obviate the need for significant amounts of imported petroleum.