4-18-08 by dugan Global warming denial is a nearly lost cause, so its proponents have a new issue: killer biofuels. Their simple, effective message is that biofuels–all of them–are the cause of rising food costs. Thus…
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Grease Rustlers Unite!
This wacky tale of grease rustling at a Northern California Burger King spins off a lot of threads. The police report said the wild-haired suspect was siphoning his 300-gallon haul of used fryer grease into…
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That’ll Be $4.35 a Gallon, Thanks
3-26-08 by dugan Hey, California, how about $4.35 a gallon for regular? A study released today (Here’s the press release. Here’s the study) by the Consumer Federation predicts pump prices could rise another 75…
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“Get a Grip” View on Ethanol
3-24-08 by dugan Leave it to the Canadians to stay calm. Consider Frank Dottori, founder and former CEO of a multibillion-dollar forest products company. Nowadays he’s heading a project to turn forest and…
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Defending Cheaper, Cleaner
3-19-08 by dugan There’s no single path to an affordable and clean energy future, and that’s a good thing. After all, the monoculture of petroleum dependence has brought us $4.00 a gallon gasoline,…
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Arnold’s Nuclear Natter
3-17-08 by dugan There are days when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to just blurt the last cockamamie idea he heard from a powerful pal. So it is with the Gov’s new enthusiasm for…
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Oil, Farm Prices, Hunger
3-17-08 by dugan The hype that ethanol is the only driver of food grain prices is persistent and wrong. Here’s a short and to the point video from CNNMoney (thanks to Insider for…
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Deadly Plug-In Hybrids!
3-14-08 by dugan I’m happy to admit that Earth would be better off if we all hiked or biked to work, got our power from solar panels on the roof, wore parkas indoors rather…
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Inuits vs. Exxon: Might Work
2-28-08 by dugan It’s a Hail-Mary pass, but the Alaskan Inuit lawsuit against the oil industry on global warming just might work. It may come down to how the judge views the definition of…
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What? Politics at the EPA?
2-26-08 by dugan Here’s a (not) shocking development. Newly released documents show that the oil buddies at the White House may have interfered in the Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of California’s new tailpipe…
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Chevron’s Greenwash-and-Run
2-11-08 by dugan Chevron’s PR whizzes pulled out the stops in 2006 and early 2007 to promote the oil company’s investment in a Texas biodiesel producer. Chevron made sure that every energy reporter…
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Distract ‘Em From the Chevy Volt
1-18-07 by dugan My greenwash antenna is waving madly. GM chief exec Rick Wagoner made a splash at the Detroit auto show earlier this week, announcing an investment in cellulosic ethanol. He offered no…
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Clean-Air Hand-Clap for Safeway
12-18-08 by dugan We ought to be past the time when fueling a truck fleet on a biodiesel blend that’s good for any diesel engine merits a back-slapping news conference. But it’s still worth…