Bob McCarty Writes

Three months ago, I warned about Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science.  One month ago, I reported on an EPA decision that could do more harm than good.  Today, I’m backed up by the folks at the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents more than 400 oil and natural gas companies. According to a [...]

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President Barack Obama used the occasion of his late-April visit to the POET Energy ethanol plant near Macon, Mo., to tout cellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative fuel that will generate tens of thousands of jobs.  That visit prompted me to ask the question, Does Obama Plan to Soak Taxpayers in Ethanol? Now, fast forward [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. Thankfully, only two weeks [...]

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