After Backlash, Ethanol Industry Is Thriving | JunkScience.com

Yet when the ethanol hype went away, the ethanol industry got bigger than ever.

Ford brings contrasts of electric and gas cars into sharper focus | JunkScience.com

Ford will soon begin offering battery- and gasoline-powered versions of its Focus, the first time consumers can compare the two powertrains on the same car.

DOE’s clean-power mandate seen undermining Obama’s sustainability initiative | JunkScience.com

Government contractors are getting progressively concerned about a proposed rule that would require new and significantly renovated federal buildings to eliminate fossil fuel-generated energy use by 2030 — an ambitious mandate they say could derail governmentwide sustainability efforts.

Public split over elimination of U.S. energy subsidies, poll finds | JunkScience.com

Generally speaking we are against subsidies but, as always, define “subsidy”. If you mean punitively discriminating against carbon-dense energy by disallowing the business and development tax breaks all manufacturing and extractive industries get then forget it, that’s just plain stupid. If, on the other hand, you are talking about the absurd largess poured upon solar- and wind-generation over the last 4-5 decades then yes, cease and desist immediately.

A Lethal Beacon for Migrating Birds | JunkScience.com

Oil companies get prosecuted for how many birds dying in a tailings dam? Seems somewhat irrational compared to aerial cuisinarts and constructed obstacles

Progressive Energy vs. “Renewable” Energy — MasterResource

To obsess about whether a given potential energy source will last hundreds of years or billions of years is to neglect the key issue that matters to human life here and now: whether it can actually provide the usable energy that will maximize the quantity and quality of human life.