Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
 

 
 

FEC Green-Lights fund-raising Group for Corn Growers

By Jeff Patch WASHINGTON—POET, LLC, the world’s largest ethanol producer, secured approval from the Federal Election Commission Wednesday for an innovative fundraising push that will allow it to raise campaign funds directl...
by The Iowa Republican

 
 
 

Grassley Comments about the Defeat of Coburn Amendment

On the defeat by a vote of 59 to 40 of Coburn amendment #436, to repeal the ethanol blender’s tax credit. The amendment was misguided and out of touch.  Jobs are scarce and gas prices are too high, and this tax increase woul...
by The Iowa Republican

 
 
 

Pain at the Pump Means Less for Groceries, Clothes and Family Vacations

By Iowa Congressman Tom Latham We all get the same sick feeling each time we visit a gas station these days.  With each tick upwards in price at the pump our monthly income in terms of purchasing power decreases.  More for fu...
by The Iowa Republican

 

 
 

Senate Democrats Again Reject Reinstating Tens of Thousands of Green Energy Biodiesel Jobs

Senator Chuck Grassley today said that clean, green biodiesel jobs have again been thwarted by the Democratic-controlled Senate.  Nationwide, as many as 20,000 people, including Iowans, have been laid off in the biodiesel indu...
by The Iowa Republican

 
 
 

Obama Uses Iowa Visit to Push Cap and Trade

President Obama visited Trinity Structural Towers in Newton, Iowa. yesterday. Trinity is a business that produces the huge steel pedestals that support wind turbines for the windmills that are popping up all around Iowa and the...
by Craig Robinson