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Seattle Times columnist needs a new ride
Via the Sunday Seattle Times: Danny Westneat has wrecked his car and needs a new ride.
Now, I don't expect it to be easy being green. But this is ridiculous. What was hailed as our leading green alternative to petroleum [biodiesel] is now an affront to humanity?
I wonder which print media gave him this false impression that biodiesel was our leading green alternative?
But when we asked around about biodiesel, it didn't take long before the scolding started. Biodiesel pollutes more than oil, said one e-mailer on a community site where my wife asked for advice. Another questioned our morality, saying it's wrong to use food for fuel when people are starving.
I find it ironic that a newspaper journalist had to learn all of this on an internet forum. Why didn't they just search the Times archives for articles instead? And what is wrong with stuffing 15 acres of vegetable oil annually into your gas tank? Hint: The price of cooking oil in Africa has gone up 60 percent.
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Obama takes NC; Clinton appears to win Indiana
Barack Obama claimed North Carolina, and Hillary Clinton is the likely winner out in Indiana. In his speech in Raleigh, Obama noted the need for new, clean energy policy, and took the opportunity to knock Clinton and McCain’s “gas-tax holiday” plan: The man I met in Pennsylvania who lost his job but can’t even afford […]
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More anti-intellectualism from the Clinton camp
Cringe along with Terry McAuliffe, who explains why economists don’t know nothin’:
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Rejecting and renouncing
Hillary Clinton has been pushing Congresscritters to take a stand on her gas tax gimmick. Now a group of 28 members of the House of Representatives have issued a statement in which they “unequivocally” reject the notion of a gas tax holiday.
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New peak oil documentary fluffs the faithful
A while back I wrote a short review of 2004’s End of Suburbia, and after watching the sequel, Escape from Suburbia, I guess I’d say roughly the same things. I want a movie like this to convince Average Joes. And when it comes to the Romantic agrarian peak oil evangelism this movie traffics in, the […]
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McCain and Clinton: job killers
According to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, the gas tax holiday proposed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton would destroy 23,107 jobs in California alone. UPDATE: Steve’s got a point. The ARTBA report only criticizes McCain’s proposal, because McCain proposes no replacement for the lost revenue. I should have looked more closely at […]
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Reid smarter than Clinton
Vows to keep the gas tax holiday out of pending Democrat gas price legislation.