Bryce considers himself an optimist but his book throws cold water on the current rush to embrace alternative energy sources.
As his title suggests, he believes that arguments for swift curtailment of oil consumption on the premise that it will enable America to achieve “energy independence” are grossly misinformed or deliberately deceptive.
Readers who think they know [...]

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Corn-based fuel isn’t the villain critics contend, but shifting to other crops is critical
Blame energy costs, not ethanol, for your grocery bill
Has ethanol contributed to the surge in food prices? Not very much, concludes a group of agricultural economists at Texas A&M University in an Apr. 10 report from the school’s Agricultural & Food Policy [...]

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While ethanol captures the imagination of energy officials in the Western Hemisphere, a familiar fuel source—nuclear power—appears to be stirring excitement on an even broader scale. Take Asia, where eighteen new plants are under construction and about 110 more are planned (Uranium Information Center), due in part to voracious demand from China, India, Japan, and [...]

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PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez has suffered a setback in his attempts to create a South American union opposed to the United States, as he was forced to drop his objections to a joint Brazilian-American plan to promote ethanol as an alternative fuel.
Hosting an energy summit yesterday, Mr Chavez backtracked, telling South American leaders that he does [...]

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