Blood for Oil?

My local gas station now advertises that its gasoline contains ethanol. Woot! Now I can buy ridiculously expensive gas that features reduced gas milage…
Here’s a fun fact relevant to the biofuel debate:

“All green plants in the U.S. — including all crops, forests, and grasslands, combined — collect about 32 quads (32 […]

a greenhouse divided against itself

Now, I am by no means persuaded that the boilerplate alarmism, here, has any merit.
The planet is already heating up, and the point of no return may be only decades away. So combating greenhouse gases must be our top priority, even if that means embracing the unthinkable. Here, then, are 10 tenets of the new […]

someone’s been reading his von Mises

This cuts several ways, but the sheer anti-rational policymongering of our crunchy green fellowbeings is clearly akin to religion. Jonah Goldberg provides an excellent swift summary in the course of a polemic against “environmentalism” which still pauses to acknowledge “conservation” as desireable.
Plastic grocery bags are being banned, even though they require less energy to […]

so what was Jesus’ position on cap-and-trade, again?

This is a great example of two things: one, the way the name of Christ or His Gospel simply shouldn’t be used (and the effects of forgetting the 3rd commandment); two, the way organizations make fools of themselves by taking positions on areas beyond their competence.
(David Freddoso on The Corner on NRO)

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how green is your firewood?

The Volokh Conspiracy - Candidates favor reducing carbon emissions to levels not seen since the American Revolution.–
More on the lunacy of current environmental goals (Eugene Volokh quoting Steve Hayward’s Wall Street Journal article):

The Volokh Conspiracy - Candidates favor reducing carbon emissions to levels not seen since the American Revolution.– via kwout

I hate to leave us […]

The Environmentalist Body Count and Conservation Refugees

The narrative of the Environmentalist/Anti-Globalist Left has all the moral clarity of an old Western flick — white-hat Greens fightin’ to save innocent town folk from greedy, pollutin’ Big Businessmen. In this narrative, the Greens are omnibenevolent, seeking only to save the world from itself and asking that we give up little more than […]

stick this in your tank and burn it (or else)

Phil Kerpen & James Valvo on Biofuels and Economics on NRO Financial
Really, people. Really. Taxpayers are asked to pay subsidies for farmers to grow crops they wouldn’t otherwise grow, to be sold at prices they wouldn’t otherwise sell for, to be processed for purposes they’re no good for: we make more expensive, […]

Greenpeace founder backs nuclear energy.

The average liberal environmentalist is a counter-intuitive sort — pro-Life for unborn eagles, but not so much for the unborn humans. Supports nuclear power for Iran, but not America.
So Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore is a refreshing anomaly. His assessment of the global warming sitch is wonderfully candid: “Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is […]