Setting Ethanol Free

The argument that corn ethanol is somehow entitled to perpetual subsidies on the basis of an inaccurate comparison to the tax benefits currently enjoyed by the oil & gas industry--tax benefits that are currently under threat, themselves--is equally unpersuasive. In the posting in which I recently examined the Treasury Department's arguments for dismantling those oil & gas tax benefits, I compared the level of incentives for conventional fuels with those provided to ethanol. That $0.45/gal. ethanol blenders' credit swells to the equivalent of about $0.77/gal. after accounting for the lower energy content of ethanol. That compares to incentives of around $0.12/gal. for US oil production. And that doesn't even take into consideration the fact that producing a gallon of ethanol requires much more energy from other sources, such as natural gas, than producing a gallon of crude oil or gasoline. Thus ethanol receives at least six times the subsidy per delivered BTU that domestic oil does, even though their energy security benefits per gallon are identical.

African Jatropha Boom Raises Concerns - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Proponents of jatropha, the plant once heralded as the future of biofuels, are running into some hurdles.

Kevin Grandia: The Philip Morris Theory of Global Warming

Many of the same people who worked on the tobacco front shifted gears to the issue of climate change when they realized that the fossil fuel industry would pay the big bucks to apply the same strategies honed in the tobacco debate.

WWF is seeking Climate Coordinator/Project Manager - Miljöaktuellt

WWF and IKEA have worked together in partnership since 2002 including responsible forestry, sustainable cotton production, and climate change. IKEA and WWF have identified climate change as a major threat to both the environment and people. Together we have decided to take a leadership role in the area of resource smart and climate friendly solutions and we have therefore started six new climate projects.