A great man once said “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Unfortunately, the general public is faced with conflicting “truths” on a daily basis so its hard for them to tell just “what is truth.” A group called the 2020 Project is...

The GMA anti-ethanol campaign, with the intended consequence of increasing the taxes on clean burning domestically produced fuels, sadly lacks the context and perspective that somehow their concern about increasing the price of food $15 per year outweighs the benefits of biofuels and trumps the impo...

The old argument goes that the demand for corn for ethanol production has caused farmers to switch from growing other crops to grow corn. And it seems that any and all price increases can be explained this way without anyone questioning it. Not even when all the numbers suggest that it is incorrect....

Last week, Michael W. Masters testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the effects of institutional speculation on commodity markets. You have asked the question “Are Institutional Investors contributing to food and energy price inflation?” And my un...

You can’t get the whole story unless you subscribe or work on Capitol Hill, but the Washington daily Roll Call has a story on the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s paid effort to smack down corn farmers in a bid to justify the high cost of processed foods at the grocery store. Scott Fa...

Too many people are "flat out wrong" about blaming ethanol for all of the increases in food prices...and then there are others like Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) that have a deep understanding of the multiplicity of the issues and also cares enough to share his knowledge and insights with othe...

There is an article in the news today that talks about the rising cost of eggs. The article is filled with interesting information. On the retail level, a dozen eggs in March cost $2.20 -- 34.8 percent more than in March 2007, when they sold for $1.63, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An...

Kudos to Business Week reporter John Carey for daring to ask the question “Is Ethanol Getting a Bum Rap?” Along with this clever illustration, Carey makes the point that corn ethanol “isn’t quite the villain critics make it out to be,” especially with regard to food pri...

President Bush, US government agencies, EU, Brazil, OECD, Consumers, Industry, Academia and Others Fight Back against Anti-Ethanol and Food vs. Fuel Critics Commentary, Perspective and Research The raging media debate and flood of accusations about food prices increasing primarily from the United St...

Where is the world’s impassioned plea to OPEC to lower the price of crude oil -- considering their production costs of $2-3 per barrel and record profits? Instead, we are hearing an impassioned plea to the United States to return to an era of not  investing into energy security technologies a...