Have you been following the Washington Examiner’s regular forays into the world of ethanol subsidies? You can read more here, here and and here. If the Examiner’s pieces on this topic have fired you up, then take a deep breath. Big Green signalled its intentions this week to demand not only more ethanol subsidies from governments around the world, but more subsidies and assitance for all sorts of additional “renewable” energy projects.
Earlier this month, the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a roughly 1,000 page Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. As the title suggests, the report lays out how the world economy can shift towards renewable forms of energy, such as ethanol, and away from oil, gas, nuclear, etc.
