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Corn Ethanol Boondoggle Costs Investors Millions

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Under the headline, Investors suffer as US ethanol boom dries up, Financial Times reported today on the plight of people like Microsoft’s Bill Gates whose investment in the ethanol industry are not panning out:
Investors, such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, are sitting on billions of dollars in losses after buying into the corn-based ethanol industry that [...]

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North Dakota Corn Ethanol Industry ‘Shucks’

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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I know it when I see it! Corn Ethanol is..

January 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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