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  • Scalped! Why an Expansion of the Ethanol Scam may Ruin Your Lawnmower (and Your Weedwhacker, and Your Snowmobile, and Your Boat…

    An increase in the amount of ethanol in your gasoline won’t hurt your lawnmower…if it’s a push-reel. Otherwise be prepared for big repair bills.

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  • Bechtel and B&w Team Up on Modular Reactors

    Today’s announcement that engineering and construction giant Bechtel will join forces with Babcock & Wilcox to build modular nuclear reactors is a big deal.

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  • Jon Stewart Vivisects “energy Independence”

    We live in the age of video. As a writer, particularly one who writes books, that fact is rather painful. But the reality is that television, and increasingly, video on the Internet – think YouTube, Hulu, etc. – is the dominant medium of our time.

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  • Enron’s Ken Lay and Bp’s Tony Hayward: Paid to be Reckless

    Tony Hayward’s lips were moving but all I could hear was Ken Lay.

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  • Beyond Pathetic: Bp’s Sorry Safety Record, a Look Back at 2005

    With each passing day, as more news reports explain what happened aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the hours before the accident, it becomes ever clearer that BP’s mismanagement of the Macondo well was responsible for the disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • Addicted to Prosperity

    Back in 2006, George W. Bush declared that the US is “addicted to oil.” Since then, that phrase has been repeated ad nauseum by politicos on both the Left and the Right.

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  • Enemies of the Corn: the Ethanol Scammers Produce a Top Ten Enemies List

    Richard Nixon had an enemies list. And now, so, too, do the corn ethanol scammers.

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  • The Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Losers and Winners

    The oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provides a near-perfect onshore platform for political demagoguery.

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  • The Ethanol Trap

    The most disgusting aspect of the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the video images of oil-soaked birds or the incessant blather from pundits about what BP or the Obama administration should be doing to stem the flow of oil.

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  • More Carbon Dioxide, Please

    Nothing. That’s the single most important step that can be taken right now to combat climate change.

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