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A CHILL HITS WIND POWER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—As I write, a strong wind is blowing across the Alleghany Mountains onto my house. It’s bringing an “Arctic Clipper” that will drop my temperatures this weekend to a frigid and unusual 6 degrees F. Why can’t I get some good from this chill wind—with a wind turbine to harvest the “free” energy?
 
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CASE FOR BIOFUELS WEAKENS FURTHER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Biofuels are a terrible answer to the fuel problem.
 

They force consumers to bid against themselves on food and fuel, artificially driving up the prices of both.

 

Biofuels take huge amounts of land to produce each gallon—and land is the planet’s scarcest resource. Farmers know they must double food and feed production over the [...]