Bob McCarty Writes

It appears the North Dakota corn ethanol industry “shucks.” According to a report this morning in the Grand Forks Herald newspaper, the developer of a 100-million gallon ethanol plant in the Spiritwood Energy Park near Jamestown, N.D., says the plant is on hold.
Rob at Say Anything Blog points out the fact that this [...]

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At last, a prominent politician has called for an end to — or, at a minimum, a temporary halt to — the insanity that surrounds the push for corn ethanol. That word comes, according to a news release today, from the people at the National Chicken Council:
Texas Governor Rick Perry is to be congratulated [...]

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Rationing is here, according to an article, Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World, in today’s New York Sun:
Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are [...]

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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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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart used the phrase, “I know it when I see it,” in the opinion he wrote about a landmark 1964 case that decided whether a French film, The Lovers, was an example of pornography. Almost 44 years later, another scourge has surfaced and holds the potential to inflict great pain [...]

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