Bob McCarty Writes

By Skunkfeathers
Guest Blogger
Gas at about $3.50/gallon; diesel at over $4/gallon. Per barrel oil prices now at over $120, and projected to go perhaps as high as $200 within a year or two. Folks are seeking answers.
Oil, coal, wind, water and sun. These are the primary sources of energy as used by much of the industrial [...]

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Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels
Josh Gerstein’s article in today’s New York Sun, the subhead of which appears above, comes one year to the week after I published highlights of an interview I conducted with Al Gore. That interview, I now believe, might go down in history as having signaled the beginning [...]

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Today marks a rare occasion when I find myself in agreement with anything touted by hard-core environmentalists like Lester Brown, Ken Cook and Jonathan Lewis.
I find myself in partial agreement with the men from “Greenville,” all of whom were invited by the Grocery Manufacturers Association to come to share their views on biofuels with reporters.
During [...]

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In post published Jan. 11, I concluded that “I know it when I see it!” and what I see is this: “Corn ethanol is Cornography!” In short, I ranted about the push toward corn-based ethanol — which I dubbed “Cornography” — as being offensive to the senses and to the economy. [...]

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