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RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation is releasing a first-of-its-kind report today, “In the Tank: Grading State Biofuel Incentives and Mandates,” grading states on their biofuel incentives and mandates. The…
The increased interest in renewable energy has led to the implementation of biofuel incentives and mandates by many state governments in the United States. Production of biofuels using edible crops,…
Gregory Wrightstone writes for Townhall.com about the problems linked to government ethanol policy. Expanded use of ethanol — enabled by President Biden’s lifting a summertime ban on fuels with a…
It’s not just politicians and entertainers who are feeling the heat of the current focus on sexual harassment. Eddie Scarry reports for the Washington Examiner. The last few weeks have…
University of Georgia Professor Emeritus Harold Brown writes of “The Ethanol Scramble” for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. An excerpt: The mandate for ethanol use was met or exceeded every…
Without federal meddling (subsidies and mandates for the production and use of ethanol) more land would be used to grow corn — not just in the US but also in…
The Bush Administration’s ethanol fetish is now under full ownership by the Obama Administration, and just as with the federal deficit, Homeland Security, the TSA, ad nauseam, any bad move…
The News & Observer has a piece today explaining the impact of a midwest drought on food prices. It’s true. I was in Indiana ten days ago, and the corn…
I applaud the 1,500 UNC Chapel Hill students who gave their time and effort Saturday to package meals for the needy in Haiti, El Salvador and India. Helping others is…
While ethanol supporters smile about government mandates for alternatives to oil, the world has begun to see the impact of using food — corn specifically — as fuel. This piece…
North Carolina’s Climate Action Plan Advisory Group enlisted the Energy Center at Appalachian State University to apply its mumbo-jumbo economic analysis model (click on “Ponder presentation”) to the recommendations that…
Yes, North Carolina is a very big corn state. Corn importing state that this. Check out this nugget of information from Ron Heiniger over at N.C. State: ?If North Carolina…