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Carol Greenberg Conservative Outlook 2/28/2011 Gasoline hit almost $4/gallon at some Chicago stations this past weekend, and as one can well imagine, folks aren’t happy. Last year at this time Chicagoans were paying an average of $2.84/gallon and with the 10 cent rise in the last few days this is the highest cost of gas […] February 28th, 2011 | Tags: ANWR, ethanol, Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Jim Himes | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Connecticut, Economy, Energy, Middle East, Politics, Taxes, technology | Comments are closed
More Good News: UN Warns China’s Wheat Crop in Danger, Could Send Shock Waves Through World Markets… Zip Weasel Zippers 2/10/2011 This is on top of today’s USDA warning that global demand has pushed US corn supplies to a 15 year low. HONG KONG — The United Nations’ food agency issued an alert on Tuesday […] February 11th, 2011 | Tags: corn, drought, ethanol, food supply, water, wheat | Category: China, Environment, United Nations | Comments are closed
M. Simon Power and Control 1/21/2011 I have just been notified by my friends at Talk Polywell of a break through in the biologic generation of liquid fuels. The Globe and Mail reports on the breakthrough (although my friends at Talk Polywell think the report is garbled by a not entirely science literate reporter). In […] January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Bill Sims, biofuels, ethanol, genetically modified cyanobacteria, George Church, Joule Unlimited | Category: Energy, Massachusetts, technology, Texas | Comments are closed
Tom Nelson 11/22/2010 U.S. corn ethanol was not a good policy-Gore | Energy & Oil | Reuters U.S. ethanol consumes about 40 pct corn crop … ATHENS, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are […] November 23rd, 2010 | Tags: 'Climategate', Al Gore, corn, ethanol, inflated corn prices | Category: corruption, Elections, Energy, Environment, Iowa, Science/Research/Technology, Tennessee | Comments are closed
Instapundit 10/29/2010 ARE WE HAVING ANOTHER FOOD CRISIS? “The world food price index is at its highest since 2008, when food prices rocketed and millions of people suffered. This year the crisis seems to be happening again. Prices for the staple grains that underpin the world’s food supply soared after forecasts for the US and […] October 29th, 2010 | Tags: commodity markets, ethanol | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Banking and finance, China, Russia, technology, United States | Comments are closed
Instapundit 10/9/2010 CAJ note: Glenn Reynolds links to the Financial Times (which requires paid subscription) but we’ve captured the headlines he’s referring to since we cannot connect to the article itself: From GLOBAL ECONOMY Oct 8, 2010 Soaring prices threaten new food crisis US forecasters slash grains production estimates Lex Commodities: self-defeating rally? In depth […] October 10th, 2010 | Tags: commodities, ethanol, food crisis, Inflation, junk science | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Energy, Environment | Comments are closed
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