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  • Al Gore’s Alcohol Problem

    Last week, Al Gore finally admitted the obvious. The former vice president (and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) who promoted ethanol in his Oscar-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” said that corn ethanol was a “mistake.”

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  • Another Carbon Dioxide Summit Failure, this Time at Cancun, Not Copenhagen

    “Cancun” doesn’t rhyme with “Copenhagen.” But the results of the meeting on global carbon dioxide emissions in the Mexican resort town that runs through Dec. 10 will undoubtedly look and sound the same as the results of the meetings held in Denmark a year ago.

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  • Obama’s Electric Vehicle Fetish

    Imagine an American president who, during a press conference, extols the importance of cars made by Mercedes Benz or BMW.

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  • Obama’s $40 Billion Man

    Majority Leader Harry Reid beat GOP challenger Sharron Angle on Tuesday, helping assure Democratic control of the Senate for the next two years.

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  • The Looming Rare Earths Train Wreck

    During her trip to China this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will talk to Chinese officials about the world’s hottest commodities: rare earth elements.

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  • More Ethanol Means Dirtier Air

    The Environmental Protection Agency announced on October 13 that it had approved an increase in the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline from 10 percent to as much as 15 percent.

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  • Ethanol is Just Another Agricultural Subsidy

    Since the 1970s, the U.S. Congress has showered the corn ethanol industry with ever-increasing mandates and subsidies.

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  • Despite Billions in Subsidies, Corn Ethanol has Not Cut U.s. Oil Imports

    In the next few weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule on a proposal to increase from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of ethanol that may be blended into gasoline.

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  • Farewell: My Final Column for Energy Tribune

    About four years ago, we launched Energy Tribune. The goal was to be a news aggregator as well as a publisher of original reporting on the global energy sector.

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  • Windfall: Documenting the Backlash Against Wind Energy

    On January 25, I got an email from Charlie Porter, a Missouri-based horse trainer. The issue: noise from wind turbines.

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