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Last week, Tom Waterman, the editor and publisher of The Ethanol Monitor, published a list of the top ten enemies of ethanol. Here’s the list: #10: Business Week/Ed Wallace (Bloomberg) #9: GRIST #8: “Big Oil” #7: Grocery Manufacturers Association #6: David Pimentel #5: Robert Rapier #4: Tim Searchinger #3: Wall Street Journal (editorial board) #2: California Air Resources Board #1: Time Magazine (Michael Grunwald) Of course, Waterman can write whatever he likes, but the fact that the ethanol boosters would produce a list of enemies is indicative of just how paranoid the ethanol scammers are getting. And their nuttiness appears...

In its calm and measured way, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just delivered a blistering assessment of the environmental value of corn-based ethanol. The CBO had been charged by Congress to calculate just what the public is getting for its investment in ethanol production: specifically, the $0.45/gallon tax credit that gasoline blenders get for mixing ethanol into the fuel supply. In 2009, 10.8 billion gallons of corn ethanol got used in such a manner, costing the federal Treasury $5.16 billion in reduced tax revenue. What did we get for that fat wad of cash, in environmental terms? The question is...

I contemplated writing this in a private email, but I decided to go public. I love you to death, MSOC. And I love your rants. And I don't want this to come across as insulting in any way. But we need to realize when we're being used. And MSOC, I hate to say it, but you're being used. There's a reason, MSOC, that John Gibson sets you up to be the radical left on a staged "blue-on-blue" debate, and then says that the entire Democratic Party gets its talking points from you. In this artificial "debate", MSOC, you did extremely...