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In Ohio, Newt Gingrich Handicaps 2012 GOP Presidential Field
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySandwiched between visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich made time for Ohio Friday, where he planned to screen a film at a Right to Life event and also take part in a discussion on ethanol. The Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire Primary are scheduled as the first contests in the 2012 presidential campaign season. But voter-rich Ohio, currently set for a March primary, always looms large, especially for GOP hopefuls. Gingrich, who is expected to announce in early March of this year whether he will run for president, said Friday that three of his potential rivals ...
Al Gore Mea Culpa: Support for Corn-Based Ethanol Was a Mistake
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNow he tells us. Al Gore says his support for corn-based ethanol subsidies while serving as vice president was a mistake that had more to do with his desire to cultivate farm votes in the 2000 presidential election than with what was good for the environment. "It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol," Gore said at a green energy conference in Athens, Greece, according to Reuters. First generation refers to the most basic, energy-intensive process of converting corn to ethanol for use as a motor vehicle fuel additive. On reflection, Gore said the ...
NASCAR Goes Green, Switches to Ethanol Mix for 2011
By Holly Cain - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.C. -- NASCAR Chairman Brian France announced Saturday that the stock car series will be switching to a 15 percent American-made ethanol mix in its Sunoco race fuel beginning in the 2011 season. NASCAR's exclusive fuel supplier, Sunoco, has been working with the series to develop a suitable mixture -- called Sunoco Green E15 -- and race teams have been using it during test sessions for the past several months. It's a big step for NASCAR, which only began using unleaded fuel a little more than two years ago. "A couple of years ago we laid out what we hoped would be a smart, ...
Breaking the Chains: 6 Solutions for Ending Dependence on Foreign Oil
By Lewis Reynolds - Politics DailyAmerica doesn't have to depend on overseas sources for one of its most vital national needs. A move toward energy independence, aside from creating as many as 14 million new jobs, can help rebuild our nation's industrial base and provide one of the most stable and secure energy supplies in the world. Best of all, this new domestically produced energy can be both renewable and sustainable. Here are a half-dozen ideas on how to start: 1. Invest in new infrastructure to process alternative fuels. There's little dispute over the feasibility of manufacturing liquid fuels from non-petroleum ...
Obama in Midwest: Samples Cheeseburgers, Organic Farm, Biofuels
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama's "Main Street" tour rolled seamlessly through the rural Midwest, from an unscheduled visit to an organic farm in Iowa, to cheeseburgers and fries at Peggy Sue's Cafe in Monroe City, Missouri on Wednesday. "I take orders every day; he orders just like a normal person," said the unfazed waitress at Peggy Sue's, which is on Main Street in the tiny town. After getting his carry-out, the president of the United States crossed the street and got into an animated conversation with workers standing in the doorway of LaRue's Insurance Agency. The White House billed the two-day ...
New Way to Make Clean Energy: Cow Manure
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Dec. 18) -- As scientists across the country look to sun and wind to replace fossil fuels, one man is delving into the bowels of our nation's cattle. Anybody who's ever been near a mountain of manure will hesitate to call it "clean" energy, but it just might get the job done. Larry Lehr, an environmental science professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has developed a system for turning cow manure into pure ethanol that could be blended with gasoline for fuel, and now he and his business partner, Norm Burgess, are planning to build a demonstration plant at a model dairy in ...
McCartney's Meat Free Mondays: Letting a Few Bad Apples Kill the Entire Tree
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyPaul McCartney has backed a campaign that calls for people to give up meat one day a week. Meat Free Mondays, the well-known vegetarian suggests, will help reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions and help feed impoverished nations. McCartney made his case to the European Parliament earlier this month, meeting in Brussels with Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the United Nations' global climate change panel. Production of food accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, he said, and livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. Some members of the ...
Obama Camp Hits McCain on Energy
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyBarack Obama advisers today slammed John McCain's energy stances - saying the Arizona senator has flip-flopped on issues such as CAFE standards, and that his support for drilling in the Outer Continental shelf is just one example of energy solutions that merely "tinker around the edges" of our very expensive problem of oil dependence."He just has rhetoric but doesn't back it up with any substance," Obama's economic policy director, Jason Furman, told reporters during a conference call.Despite all the "rhetoric" on how it's vital to our national and economic security to reduce the United ...
Subsidies Grow Bigger Down on the Farm
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAmidst rising prices and record profits, Congress is set to pass a new round of subsidies and special protections for some of the largest corporations and richest people in the country worth close to $300 billion. But it is not a new energy bill loaded with tax breaks for oil companies, it's a new five-year Farm Bill containing direct payments and price supports for farmers who in many cases have seen their incomes skyrocket in recent years. The bill extends or increases many of the programs enacted in the 2002 version; but this time the White House is threatening a veto.President Bush ...
Primaries, Iowa, and Farm Subsidies
By Dave - Politics DailyAnd now we come to an article about the real reason that Iowa wants to stay in front of the primary process, which may just be all about making farm subsidies untouchable. The Washington Post has a long article about the current state of ethanol and farm subsidies. And kudos to only John McCain for not pandering. ...
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