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Spring Madness on Global Warming

May 5, 2009, 5:40pm

Shikha Dalmia

No Biofuels Bailout

Farm energy pork wastes money and harms the environment

January 13, 2009

Ronald Bailey

If Congress decides that greenhouse gases are a big problem, it should stop trying to pick energy technology "winners" by subsidizing favored sectors, and instead end all subsidies and put all energy technologies on a level playing field. Congress should then set a price on carbon dioxide, and let the most affordable and most efficient energy technology win—be it wind, solar, clean coal, nuclear, or whatever.

Ethanol Subsidies Cost Taxpayers $8 Billion This Year

New Reason.tv video examines the financial and environmental costs of ethanol

August 11, 2008

Politicians are going crazy for ethanol, touting it as a cure-all that will reduce both pollution and our dependence on foreign oil. But a new Reason.tv video shows ethanol subsidies are costing taxpayers a massive $8 billion this year and that as much as 60 percent of the increase in world food prices can be blamed on biofuel subsidies.

A Federal Ethanol Mandate

Is it Worth it?

November 1, 2003

Matthew McCormick, Scott Freifeld, Lynne Kiesling

MTBE, Ethanol Mandates Aren't Needed

Testimony to U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs

July 2, 2003

Lynne Kiesling

Resurrection of Ethanol Mandates

Oxygenates offer no environmental benefits

June 10, 2003

Joel Schwartz

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