The unintended consequences of America’s ethanol policy | JunkScience.com

The unintended consequences of the policy, especially those influencing world food prices, far outweigh the intended benefits.

WSJ: Windy Republicans | JunkScience.com

GOP Congressmen sign up for energy crony capitalism.

Global Growth Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continues | JunkScience.com

We’d consider that an encouraging sign of economic recovery but C&EN chooses to follow the Worldwatch Institute handwringing route, complete with climate mythology:

Big Wind Subsidies: Time to Terminate? — MasterResource

Ending industrial wind subsidies is a quadruple win: it fosters real jobs, promotes economic growth, protects endangered species, and elevates environmental values over image-making.

The public is coming to this view, not only energy realists.

Vermont Senator Says State Energy Plan Has Become “A Blind Obsession”

I cannot support the raping of a pristine environment in exchange for intermittent power that has to be subsidized by both the taxpayer and the ratepayer. At a time when Vermont already has an ample power supply, this is no energy plan, it is a blind obsession. It’s time for Vermonters of every political stripe to join together in defense of “These Green Hills and Silver Waters.”