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Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Replacing oil with home-grown biofuels is already proving to be an environmental headache for Washington. Fixing that could turn out to be an expensive headache, as well.

Environmental groups Earth Track and Friends of the Earth just put out a study quantifying biofuels subsidies through 2022, as the U.S. plans to massively increase production of biofuels. The upshot? The cost to taxpayers would be about $420 billion over that period, or an average of about $28 billion a year.

EPW FACT OF THE DAY: ‘IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST…’

The $300 million effort, dubbed the ‘We Campaign,’ was spearheaded by Gore’s new climate outfit, the Alliance for Climate Protection. It features, among other tidbits, heartwarming commercials of Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi, sitting side-by-side on a couch, calling for climate action. Another ad, narrated by actor William Macy, makes parallels to America’s historical challenges. “We didn't wait for someone else to storm the beaches of Normandy,” Macy said in the ad. With all of this fancy ad-making, one wonders: since Gore’s highfalutin campaign commenced, has the public noticed? Does the public care? Has the public bought into Gore’s apocalyptic predictions?

FACT: According to Frank Newport, editor of the Gallup Poll, the answer is a resounding, unequivocal ‘no.’

Barton, Walden Seek Answers from EPA on Cap-and-Trade Fraud Case in California

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for information on EPA’s oversight of a pollution credit trading market as it relates to a closed criminal case, U.S. v. Anne Masters Sholtz.

The case involved the sale of counterfeit pollution credits in a cap-and-trade program gone wrong. The Regional Clean Air Incentives Market was established by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in California.

“We believe this case has great relevance in the context of pending legislation on climate change,” Barton and Walden said. “It is important that Congress assess not only whether EPA has an adequate regulatory regime and surveillance capacity over pollution credit trading but also whether there are any factors (e.g., resources, legal restrictions) constraining federal law enforcement in combating criminal cap-and-trade fraud.”

Comment: Do we really need a National Climate Service?

Hilarious news.
More offices means bigger fear they generate to survive. How many "Old Families" will grow from your tax money? The more money Americans throw at fighting the climate change, the harder it will be to scientifically question the data this scam is based upon.