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Foreign Investors Buying Major U.S. Properties Using Our Addiction to Oil

By on June 30, 2008 in oil

Guess who is negotiating to buying the famous Chrysler Building in New York?? Abu Dhabi is trying to buy the Chrysler Building, the latest Big Apple trophy being coveted by oil-rich sovereign wealth funds is the landmark Chrysler Building. Wake up America, our hard earned money purchases gasoline and oil products. The money goes back [...]

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Approval Rating for Kudzu Ethanol Soars as Floods Cancel Corn Crops

By on June 25, 2008 in ethanol

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Just recently on the Discovery Channel website, there was an article about using kudzu for making ethanol. This article gave another Approval for Kudzu as a Potential Biofuel and could [...]

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A Dirty Secret: U.S. Taxpayers footing bill for “Splash and Dash”, Dumping subsidized Biodiesel in Europe

By on June 23, 2008 in Biofuels

“Men go mad in herds but only come to their senses one by one.” – Charles Mackay, the 19th-century Scottish journalist Our elite U.S. Congress has a loophole in a bill that is using American taxpayers’ money to help pay for biodiesel being shipped overseas to Europe. Have your heard of the “Splash and Dash” [...]

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Biodiesel Being Made From Tree Nuts…What You Say?!?

By on June 20, 2008 in Biofuels

Jatropha curcas, a tree shrub with biodiesel nuts. The Jatropha plant profile. Would you believe a new plant (tree) is being used to produce biodiesel to power engines and motors? Have you heard of the Jatropha tree, Jatropha Curcas? Biodiesel from a nut producing tree that will be a sustainable green fuel product. The nuts [...]

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Spring Flooding Brings Highest Corn Prices Ever

By on June 16, 2008 in food prices

Corn and oil prices keep rising and are having more drastic effects on our lives and killing us in the pocketbook. All other grain crops are being affected but the USDA says that corn ethanol has only affected food prices by 4.0%? I call this fuzzy math. What does this mean for future food costs? [...]

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Kudzu Ethanol Plant Startup in Tennesee, Cows Will Love It

By on June 11, 2008 in ethanol

Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) was introduced to the United States twenty-five years before the turn of the twentieth century, and is currently found naturalized throughout the southeastern states 125 years later.

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Cap and Trade Bill: Just Another Tax With Little Results, but at What Price?

By on June 6, 2008 in Global Warming

Have you been watching the debate this week on the Lieberman/Warner Cap and Trade Bill? A historical moment or just another round of rhetoric from most U.S. Senators who want to be on TV? This week, one of the biggest heated legislative and lobbying wars of 2008 comes to a head as the Senate takes [...]

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The Inconvient Truth about Ethanol Subsidies

By on May 28, 2008 in ethanol

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”- Edmund Burke “Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” – Robert Louis Stevenson What did you pay for gasoline today? While I was half filling up my gas tank this morning, I noticed a [...]

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