U.S. energy policy – Jan 25
Bodman: U.S. veeds more ethanol imports
Energy research on a shoestring [energy lab underfunded]
Be careful what you wish for: the politics of cheap oil
Renewable Energy
Bush’s SOTU – rhetoric and reality on energy
Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
Where Is the energy for freedom?
The future is coming fast, and we’ll choose it through our actions as citizens, consumers and voters. The question remains: Do we have the energy for freedom?
Biofuels – Jan 21
Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom
Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices
Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)
China – Jan 20
China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?
GAO: U.S. energy R&D, policy are inadequate
It is unlikely that DOE’s current level of R&D funding or the nation’s current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy
sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional
fossil energy.
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
Dysfunction – Jan 15
Anywhere the eye can see, it’s likely to see an ad
Americans have personal bonds with cars
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?
U.S.: ethanol – Jan 15
Ethanol debate: Kammen vs Patzek
New gov. envisions Iowa as the energy capital of the world
Ethanol boom to evaporate corn surplus
Corn rockets, triggers trading limit
Pig farmers, ethanol don’t mix
Farmers and biofuels – Jan 14
The farmer is the man [and woman] – report from Kentucky
Out-of-control burn-your-food-for-fuel policy
Biofuels boom pinches the world’s poorest
Investing in ethanol
From a national security standpoint, large-scale ethanol production from corn will not make the nation more secure in any measurable way. It will certainly destabilize the nation’s food supply and disrupt traditional export patterns.
