Ethanol's roadkill
By Kenneth E. Feltman05/14/2008
The corn-ethanol lobby is well organized, aggressive and nasty. Last year, I wrote three articles saying that corn-ethanol production takes farmland out of food production, uses huge amounts of increasingly scarce water, and leaves poor people in countries such as Mexico hungry because their cost of food increases beyond their means as corn and other grains are diverted to fuel.
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War, Peace and Oil
By William Robert Barber05/01/2008
I have read of it in various publications, had the merits of it explained to me by many distinguished speakers, have been induced to believe that it is of common acceptance, and for the better part of my early life on earth I actually believed that the essence was doable:
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"Obama doesn't like me"
By Kenneth E. Feltman05/01/2008
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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