EPA may OK 15 percent ethanol blend for older cars

From The Hill - by Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, the national trade association for the U.S. ethanol industry.

With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the turmoil in the Middle East, the continuing concern with greenhouse gases and the need to generate jobs in cutting-edge industries, President Obama has called for a “national mission” to end America’s addiction to imported oil. This month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce a crucial decision about the future of the only fuel currently available to replace and reduce oil imports: American ethanol. After almost a year of delay, the EPA will finally release a ruling on whether to increase the ethanol content allowed in gasoline blends from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15). Unfortunately, EPA has hinted it will limit the use of E15 to newer vehicles — those made more recently than 2001 or perhaps even 2007. Read more:

EPA may OK 15 percent ethanol blend for older cars

A pilot at low level slams into four buildings

A pilot at low level has no control over his aircraft. It narrowly misses a crowd gathered for the airshow and slams into four buildings.

One can only imagine the horror of the occupants in those buildings.

A pilot at low level slams into four buildings

Progressive: Its All About Win-Lose

Matthew Rothschild

Whenever Republicans are at risk of not getting their way for their millionaire constituents, they cry “class warfare.” So it was that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor just whipped out the old accusation again in the Wall Street Journal, blaming the Democrats and “the progressive left” for “provocative class warfare rhetoric.” What Cantor doesn’t like is the rhetoric. But he’s content with the class warfare, because his class keeps winning, battle after battle, war after war. Read more here:

Progressive: Its All About Win-Lose

Dr. Alveda King: Beck Helped Honor God

Jillian Bandes

Dr. Alveda King

From Townhall by Jillian Bandes - MLK, Glenn Beck, and racism: these themes are still echoing long after the conclusion of Beck's monumental rally on the anniversary of King's "I Have A Dream" speech last month. Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, has been under fire for her participation in the event, with fault lines running not only from liberal critics but also from the black conservative Christian movement and in the conservative movement at large. Alveda King is both defensive and realistic about her involvement. Dr. Alveda King “The principles of faith, hope, charity, love, honor – we are taught to honor God, to honor our families – and love our neighbors… and I believe the message that Glenn delivered helped us do that,” she said in an interview. Read more here:

Dr. Alveda King: Beck Helped Honor God

Green Activist Prophet or Profit?

Danny Kennedy

As a former environmental activist, Danny Kennedy, 39, says he is “probably more missionary than mercenary” when it comes to clean energy. Still, the founder of Sungevity, a Berkeley (Calif.)-based company that sells solar power panels for homes, is “entirely comfortable with the fact that we’re going to make a killing in this industry.”

Green Activist Prophet or Profit?

Lisa to Joe - If I Can't Have It Maybe You Can't Either

Lisa Murkowski

Senator Lisa Murkowski’s attempt to win reelection through a write-in campaign in Alaska will test the staying power of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party amid a debate over the role of federal spending in that state. “I’m going to give them a choice,” Murkowski said yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “If the people on Nov. 2 say, well, we don’t like her, that’s fine.” Murkowski lost last month’s primary to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks and a former U.S. magistrate judge. She had been the Senate’s No. 4 Republican before she was forced by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to resign her leadership post following her write-in announcement. Read more here:

Lisa to Joe - If I Can't Have It Maybe You Can't Either

Feldstein: We Should Commit Now to Two Years

Martin Feldstein

Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein said raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans could push the nation back into a recession and urged that all Bush-era tax cuts be extended for two years. Feldstein, a member of the committee that dates the beginning and end of recessions, said President Barack Obama’s proposal to allow tax cuts for the wealthy to lapse “is going to slow the economy down and could push the economy into recession again next year.” “We should extend all of the Bush tax cuts for two years and we will have a clean slate and see where the economy is,” Feldstein said today in a radio interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene. “We should commit now to two years -- and nothing beyond the two years.” Read more here:

Feldstein: We Should Commit Now to Two Years

Republicans Gain Ground Among Independents

From SRO Blog - A new comprehensive national survey shows that independent voters—who voted for Barack Obama by a 52%-to-44% margin in the 2008 presidential election—are now moving strongly in the direction of the Republican Party. The survey, conducted by Douglas E. Schoen LLC on behalf of Independent Women’s Voice in late August, raises the possibility of a fundamental realignment of independent voters and the dominance of a more conservative electorate. Today, independents say they lean more toward the Republican Party than the Democratic Party, 50% to 25%, and that the Republican Party is closer to their views by 52% to 30%. This movement comes in spite of independents’ generally negative views of the GOP—a majority of independents (54%) view the Republicans unfavorably, compared to 39% who have a favorable impression. (The poll also revealed that 48% of independents were either “sympathetic to or supporters of the tea party.”) Read more here:

Republicans Gain Ground Among Independents

Wilderness on the Border - Outdoor Fun

Sometimes a write-up about "Outdoor Fun" and some on location pictures are worth a thousand words. This is an idea that is coming to the drug and human smuggling theater near you......in southern Dona Ana County if Senators Bingaman and Udall get their way. Read more here:

Wilderness on the Border - Outdoor Fun

Hall and McCamley Race Summary

Ben Hall

Bill McCamley

From the New Mexico Independent - Former Republican state legislator Ben Hall and former Democratic Doña Ana County commissioner Bill McCamley both want to clean up the powerful and scandal-plagued state Public Regulation Commission (PRC), which regulates the state’s electrical, natural gas, and water utilities and insurance industry. Both men told The Independent this week that if elected to the PRC, they would not meet with corporate lobbyists during while hearing cases about companies’ rates or interfere with bureau chiefs’ staff hiring decisions. Read more here:

Hall and McCamley Race Summary