Posted on 11/13/2013 3:07:16 AM PST by raybbr
AP Investigation: Obama's green energy drive comes with an unadvertised environmental cost
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.
Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield.
It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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"It just caught us completely off guard," said Doug Davenport, a Department of Agriculture official who encourages southern Iowa farmers to use conservation practices on their land. Despite those efforts, Davenport said he was surprised at how much fragile, erodible land was turned into corn fields.
Shortly after Davenport spoke to The Associated Press, he got an email ordering him to stop talking.
Totalitarianism rears it's ugly head.
It was obvious from the very start - don’t put your food in your gas tank.
Of course it was supposed to be this way.
Any way in the book to create destruction, famine and death.
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