Congressional Issues 2010
ENERGY
The Ethanol Illusion

• reject proposals to subsidize any form of energy, including ethanol, and eliminate all existing subsidies for domestic production and tariffs on imported energy.

• The Clean Energy Scam - TIME Magazine
  Mar 27, 2008 | Ethanol increases global warming, destroys forests and inflates food prices. So why are we subsidizing it?  | Report at Reason Magazine: Biofuels are a Scam: The New Conventional Wisdom at Long Last
• The American Spectator: Corny Capitalism
• Sustainable Food - Change.org: Biofuel Hazard
• Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green - International Herald Tribune
• "Big Corn" and the Unintended Consequences of the Ethanol Quick Fix
• Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier
• Ethanol - Courant.com
• Senate Votes to Keep Ethanol Tariff
  • Government says it wants us to use ethanol, but refuses to remove a 54-cent tax on every gallon of imported ethanol. This proves that government isn't really interested in our using ethanol, it's interested in getting votes from domestic corn growers.
• Energy Nonsense
• The Ethanol Mandate Should Not Be Expanded
• Ethanol: Time to steer away
• Ethanol isn't worth getting pumped up about, but oil shale might be
• The Many Myths of Ethanol::By John Stossel
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Leading Bioenergy Crops Bad for the Environment, Says Science
• Ethanol Requirements: No tanks
• Making pain at the pump worse
  • Washington has embraced an alternative to $3-a-gallon gasoline -- $4-a-gallon ethanol!
• Wishful Thinking Is No Magical Energy Elixir
• Congress Gets Drunk on Ethanol | Reason Magazine