Today from Margaret Swedish: I have been wanting to do a post on the debate around ethanol and other biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels – why this will not solve our problem and why this could instead increase world hunger, finish off more small farmers, give a big boost to agribusiness and its destructive ways [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: Today's Washington Post reports that Democrats are going to use high gas prices as a central focus of election campaigns. That's fine. The Bush administration deserves scathing critiques for its pro-energy industry policies of the past 6 years. We have lost a lot of critical years to begin weaning this country [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: Checked in with the entertaining environmental gristmill.org daily this morning and found there this info on the preemptive strike by the energy industry against Al Gore's new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, which opens in various cities this coming week. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is one of the corporate [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: With Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fl, calling it , “a grievous assault on Florida and other (coastal) states," the House of Representatives yesterday voted down an attempt to end a 25-year-long ban on natural gas and oil drilling along 85 percent of US coastal waters. The drilling provision had been added to [...]