Some members of Congress are finally taking notice of how ethanol is driving up gas prices. Unfortunately, they probably aren’t going to do anything about it. House and Senate energy panels are eyeing the price of ethanol renewable identification numbers,…
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Get Ready For The Ethanol ‘Blend Wall’
by Lonely Conservative • • 8 Comments
Here’s another liberal policy that’s coming back to bite us. The drought last year caused a reduction in corn crops, but thanks to the renewable fuel standards set by the government, that’s going to translate to even higher fuel costs…
The Government Mandate For Higher Food Prices
by Lonely Conservative • • 8 Comments
This article from the WSJ is a few days old but it’s still noteworthy for anyone who buys food, which is just about all of us. Heck, even if you’re on food stamps, thanks to the government those EBT cards…
Drought? What Drought? EPA Refuses To Waive Ethanol Mandate
by Lonely Conservative • • 8 Comments
The Federal Renewable Fuels Standard and the drought over the summer sent the price of corn through the roof. Several states and meat industry groups requested that the mandate be lifted, and after some hemming and hawing the EPA finally…
EPA Mandates Minimum Purchase of 4 Gallons of Gas at E15 Stations
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
The Environmental Protection Agency has another new mandate out there – how much gasoline you must purchase. That’s right. Because of the ethanol boondoggle, which Chris Wysocki calls Frosted Flakes for your car, consumers who purchase gas from E15 pumps…
Why is the Government Buying So Much Meat?
by Lonely Conservative • • 12 Comments
The other day I heard that the federal government is buying up a whole bunch of meat from farmers who are having a rough summer because of drought. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it until this morning…
Ethanol Plant Sold, Taxpayers Out $65 Million
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Here we have the EPA doing everything they can to put coal plants out of business while “green energy” companies are going belly up all on their own, even after bureaucrats and politicians have given them billions in taxpayer subsidies.…
That’s What You Call Rage?
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
HoffPo linked to an earlier piece about the movie “Cars 2″ in which the villain is “Big Oil.” The writer, Joanna Zelman, sees rage. Some conservatives are already enraged. The Lonely Conservative blog wrote, “We conservatives and believers in free markets…
Big Corn Eats GOP
by Unlikely Hospitalist • • 3 Comments
Well Mitt Romney is a fan and evidently so are most of the Republicans in the Senate. Yesterday Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) forced a vote on the Senate floor for a measure that would have immediately ended both federal subsidies…
Mmmm, Bacon! Let’s Hope We Can Afford it Tomorrow!
by Lonely Conservative • • Comments Off
It’s getting harder and harder to bring home the bacon, literally. We bought some a few weeks ago when it was on sale. We don’t cook it that much, because of the messy splatter on the stove. But it’s so…
Add the Cost of Dining Out to Your List of Things Going Up
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
Maybe I should have titled this post “If Money’s Tight Scratch Dining Out Off Your List of Things to Do.” The fact of the matter is, you can’t flood the market with scads of dollars and expect those dollars to…
Oil Up to Over $100 a Barrel
by Lonely Conservative • • 5 Comments
The Financial Times is reporting that the price of oil is now up over $100 per barrel thanks to the instability in Egypt. Oil prices broke through the $100 a barrel level for the first time in more than two…
Prepare Yourself for Rising Food Prices – Updated
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
There’s a reason food and energy aren’t included when the government reports inflation. Get ready for even higher food prices. The Financial Times reports that we’re getting closer to food price shock. While it will be difficult for us here…
Statists Have To Be Cruel To Be Kind
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
Remember the song “Cruel to Be Kind” by Nick Lowe? It ought to be the progressive theme song. It seems that everything they do, every policy they enact, involves being cruel to one to be kind to another. I do…