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		<title>The Great Delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/07/the-great-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Patterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1841 a Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published a landmark study of mass hysteria and sociopsychosis titled “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” Mackay painstakingly analyzed a wide variety of popular pathologies in his entertaining tome, including financial panics, medical quackery, pseudoscience like alchemy and astrology, and witch crazes.  He wanted to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Those Billions, Blowing in the Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marita Noon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 1, an urgent alert was sent to supporters of wind energy. It stated: “The PTC is the primary policy tool to promote wind energy development and manufacturing in the United States. While it is set to expire at the end of 2012 &#8230; the credit has already effectively expired. Congress has a choice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions Heart Keystone XL</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Yeatman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the American Spectator, my colleagues Vincent Vernuccio and Matt Patterson have an excellent piece about how the President’s Keystone punt has been received by organized labor. Here’s a roundup of reactions noted in their oped: Terry O&#8217;Sullivan, head of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), has called Obama&#8217;s action “politics at its worst,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Presses! Lowering a Soviet-style Production Quota for Biodiesel Hurts Biodiesel Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/07/stop-the-presses-lowering-a-soviet-style-production-quota-for-biodiesel-hurts-biodiesel-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Yeatman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, motorists are subject to a Soviet-style production quota for biofuels. Every year, Americans must purchase greater volumes of biofuels&#8211;motor fuels distilled from corn, soy, and plant matter&#8211;until 2022, when the production quota tops out at 36 billion gallons. Fifteen billion gallons of that figure would come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Tool for Mapping Water Use and Drought</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/07/a-new-tool-for-mapping-water-use-and-drought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>USDA Agricultural Research Service</dc:creator>
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        ARS scientists Martha Anderson and Bill Kustas have developed a drought modeling system to help forecasters monitor drought conditions acro...]]></description>
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		<title>House GOP’s Misguided “Drilling for Roads” Highway Bill Heads to Floor Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/06/house-gop%e2%80%99s-misguided-%e2%80%9cdrilling-for-roads%e2%80%9d-highway-bill-heads-to-floor-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Scribner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post here, I noted the major problems with House GOP leadership&#8217;s proposal to link revenue from expanded domestic energy production with the Highway Trust Fund in their surface transportation reauthorization legislation. Since then, the three major portions have cleared their respective committees: House Natural Resources approved the drilling proposals, Transportation and Infrastructure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T. Boone Pickens Still Wants Subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/06/t-boone-pickens-still-wants-subsidies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh off a nod from President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech, T. Boone Pickens has again began to circle the country touting the alleged benefits of providing subsidies for the transportation sector to convert more vehicles to natural gas power. Today, he writes in The Chicago Tribune: If you are going to transform American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Pitt’s “Common Sense” Analogy to the Fossil Fuel Automobile</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/06/brad-pitt%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense%e2%80%9d-analogy-to-the-fossil-fuel-automobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mega Star Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show this past Wednesday where he made a point to condemn the traditional gas-guzzler with an analogy of his new Academy Award-nominated Moneyball. Brad explains:  “It (Moneyball) was the story of this small market team that found the game unfair, they could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for American Progress’s Joe Romm No Show in Debate with Heritage’s David Kreutzer</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/06/center-for-american-progress%e2%80%99s-joe-romm-no-show-in-debate-with-heritage%e2%80%99s-david-kreutzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myron Ebell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I and several of my CEI colleagues were looking forward to an informal debate late Friday afternoon on energy policy sponsored by McKinsey and Company, the global consulting firm.  As part of their “Drinks and Debate” series, McKinsey’s Washington, DC office invited David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation and Joe Romm of the Center for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Protectionism: Waxman and Markey’s ‘Fix’ for Keystone XL</title>
		<link>http://www.planetaryruin.com/2012/02/06/reverse-protectionism-waxman-and-markey%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fix%e2%80%99-for-keystone-xl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlo Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today and tomorrow, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up H.R. 3548, the “North American Energy Access Act,” Rep. Lee Terry’s (R-Neb.) bill to nullify President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will offer an amendment that would bar U.S. refiners from exporting any petroleum [...]]]></description>
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