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Ethanol loses Big Oil, big advocates and maybe big subsidies - TheDC

| Dipka Bhambhani

Advocates of ethanol subsidies turn on the industry in the face of rising food costs and deficit spending

Hammertime: How Four Loko became ethanol [VIDEO] - TheDC

| Mary Katharine Ham

Mary Katharine Ham explains how a popular beverage was turned into a product that needs to be subsidized

'Green jobs' cronyism and cannibalism

| Hon. Ernest Istook

The green jobs agenda involves spending billions of dollars to destroy existing jobs and replace them with jobs in politically favored businesses.

Expect Obama to double down on energy boondoggles

| Chris Horner

The president will use his State of the Union address to renew his calls for more renewable energy “investments.”

TheDC Morning: How the left astroturfed net neutrality into existence - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

Peace Prize puzzles

| Henry Miller

Noble Peace Prizes should be awarded to people who have actually accomplished things.

TheDC Morning: House passes bill aimed at denying stupid immigrants citizenship - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

Under new tax deal, ethanol subsidies to be extended - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

Despite strong opposition from both sides, the Corn Belt is expected to get their subsidies renewed

Tea Party, greens unite against ethanol tax credit - The Hill

| Chad Brady (admin)

Extend all of the Bush tax cuts

| Derek Hunter

Congress should not eliminate any credits, be they for anything from children to ethanol.

Corn ethanol: He was for it before he was against it - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

In 1994, Vice President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote to authorize ethanol production, now he calls it “bad policy”

Ending oil dependence by making us more dependent?

| Derek Hunter

The Democrats say they want to end our dependence on foreign oil, but their policies are making us more, not less, dependent on it.

Obama’s actions prevent timely clean-up by U.S. allies

| Hans Bader

Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that … possess some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships,” but Obama’s interests lie closer to unions than cleaning up the epic mess in the Gulf

No need to rush to more ethanol

| Dave Juday

Ethanol mills are making money. Taxpayer subsidies are starting to flow overseas. The impact of a bigger blend of ethanol has a lot of as of yet unanswered questions—the biggest of which, given the economic standing of the industry is, what’s the rush?

BP a ‘serial environmental criminal’

| Hans Bader

The administration’s close ties to BP could explain its lackadaisical approach to cleaning up the Gulf

Britain: 'Green' fuels might not be very green - The Time Online

| AJ

Using fossil fuel in vehicles is better for the environment than so-called green fuels made from crops, according to a British government study