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Burning Our Food?

"At the same time many forms of biofuels are being questioned as effective tools in the fight against global warming. While more recently they're being blamed for the rising global food crisis.

"Climate change activists such as Ben Wikler of avaas.org are skeptical of the benefits of most biofuels being used today."

Ben Wikler: "Biofuels were heralded as this fantastic way to move away from fossil fuels, because unlike fossil fuels, when you use ethanol, for example, in a car it burns less carbon when you're actually driving the vehicle. And also it's a renewable resource..."

Hillary Hugging

"Because of the current media culture, everything has to be 50/50. So, you have to present Hillary Clinton's arguments just as if they had just as much validity as Barack Obama's arguments. The problem is they don't have as much validity. They're not right...

"...Even if she wins with enormous margins there, she's still not going to beat him in pledged delegates or popular vote, so that momentum is irrelevant. It's like saying whether you have momentum in the first half of a football game or a basketball game, is that important? Yeah, sure, that might be important. But if you're already down 45-10 in the fourth quarter and you get momentum by scoring ten more points it doesn't matter, 'cause you're still gonna lose. And that's the situation that Hillary Clinton's in right now..."

Saud & FDR

"Franklin Roosevelt first looked ahead and saw that the United States eventually would become dependent and he was the one who pioneered a foreign policy based on oil.

"Roosevelt understood that oil was a decisive in America's victory in World War II. We triumphed over the Germans and Japanese true by military prowess and the leadership of our generals, but also because the US had a superior industrial capacity. We were able to produce so many thousands of tanks and planes and we had the petroleum to fuel those weapons whereas the Germans and Japanese did not..."

Jim Jubak

It turns out the bankers who bought derivatives based on mortgages didn't read the fine print, says Jim Jubak, the Webs #1 investing columnist. Now they're learning that the senior investors who bought the safest pieces of the deals can grab all the cash flow and force other investors to sell.

"If you want to know why the financial crisis is going on for so long, why the banks can't put the sub-prime mortgage crisis behind them more quickly, focus on this. Just as individual homeowners got into trouble on their individual mortgages because they didn't really read or understand the fine print, it turns out the banks didn't read the fine print either. The didn't read the fine print on the derivatives, the packages of mortgages and the things based on the packages that they were buying and selling..."