Picasso Moon wrote:http://www.theoilage.com/ugo-bardi-reviews-new-book-on-bio-fuels-t6302.html
Ugo Bardi's review of a new book on bio-fuels, includes a discussion of Brazil's low-wages-dependent ethanol industry. Not that other people's slave conditions matter much to industry shills.

billhicksisdead wrote:More and more data continues to come in which indicates that the media narrative about the economy being on the upswing, fueled in large measure by the January month jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Lying statistics and the booming of the horrendously manipulated stock market, is a flat out falsehood. Just in the past week there have been reports that American gasoline consumption is cratering along with the Baltic Dry Index (which measures global shipping rates), indicating a massive slowdown in the economy. And now comes word that taxes revenues in the nation's largest state also went into free fall in January. Here is Bloomberg with the details:

mcgowanjm wrote:
. . . . There's just no easy way to cut sugar cane. . . .