In the blog entry "More Obama hypocrisy" Thomas Lifson wrote

Leasing a "flex fuel" vehicle - which I take to mean something that burns ethanol and makes food more expensive for the poor - strikes me as rather similar to buying carbon credits.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country that faced down the tyranny of fascism and communism is now called to challenge the tyranny of oil.

The Obama-Harkin fuel standard embraces the growth of the renewable fuels market, including corn-based ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel

...environmentalists have warned that the biofuel craze can do as much or more damage to the environment as dirty fossil fuels-a concern reflected throughout the [U.N.] report, which was being released Tuesday in New York, by U.N.-Energy, a consortium of 20 U.N. agencies and programs.