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How much do solar, wind and electric vehicle companies get in federal handouts and tax loopholes in resident Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill? Well over $100 billion in taxpayer largesse. If all the tax credits are included, that number could reach half a trillion dollars. No other industry in American history has ever received this lucrative a paycheck. The folks at the Institute for Energy Research calculated that this is on top of the more than $150 billion in subsidies these industries received from Uncle Sam in the last 30 years. The umbilical cord to taxpayer wallets never gets...

A Senate committee, over the strong objections of oil companies, yesterday approved a requirement that refiners must use more corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels in gasoline. The legislation would mandate that refiners use at least 8 billion gallons of renewable components -- almost all of it ethanol made from corn -- in gasoline annually by 2012. That would double ethanol production, ....... ----snip----- By a 12-10 vote, the committee agreed to give California a summertime waiver to the ethanol mandate if needed to meet air-quality requirements, although refiners in the state still would be required to use 900 million...

VOTE “NO” ON ISSUE 1 Ohioans have the opportunity to vote against the expansion of Governor Taft’s transforming economic development plan, Issue 1, also known as the Third Frontier. A frontier, according to Webster, is a new field for exploitive or developmental activity. The first frontier was taming the wilderness, the second, the industrial frontier according to some, or the exploration of outer space according to others. For central planners to put the transformation of our economy on par with those frontiers is fair warning that Issue 1 is a big deal. Proponents say it will create jobs (as though...