Coburn, DeMint Turn to Killing Corn Ethanol Subsidies | FDL News Desk

I don’t agree with the DeMint/Coburn free market approach to absolutely everything, but the science is pretty clear on ethanol, and even environmental leaders like Gore aren’t bothering to defend it anymore. There are absolutely alternative sources of energy that provide a societal good and deserve to be promoted at the federal level, but first-generation ethanol isn’t one of them. If the subsidies survive they should go to cellulosic ethanol technologies, like wood or switchgrass or even waste.

Ohio, repeal expensive energy law | cincinnati.com | nky.com

The mandate is unrealistic.

Currently the state receives only 1 percent of its electricity from hydroelectric or renewables, according to the Public Utilities Commission, despite huge taxpayer subsidies for such projects.

Constituents are getting soaked for these projects in both their power bills and their tax bills, all in the name of having a negligible effect on saving the planet from, at best, a highly disputed global warming "problem."

Repealing Ohio's AEPS should be a top priority for Kasich and the newly elected legislature. It's an easy call that can create significant relief for the state's struggling economy.

Green Police Orders Confiscation Of Enviro-Contraband

Lubos Motl here wrote up a piece on this story about 2 German engineers who were busted for attempting to bring environmental contraband (incandescent light bulbs) across the Climate Berlin Wall. Last year the EU banned the 100-watt bulbs as the start of an incandescent light bulb phase-out that will take place over the next years.

Scarlet Johansson Calls for Climate [Swindle] « Climate Progress

Whatever your views about celebrity spokespeople, Johansson just turned 26 on Monday, so she is part of the generation who will have to suffer through the ruined climate we are leaving them.

- Bishop Hill blog - Still howlin'

How many jobs will Huhne have destroyed before even half of those illusory million "low-carbon" replacements have appeared? How many old folk will have died from the winter cold?

Talk about kicking the country when it's down.