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...Bauer. "He could have used the energy issue to actually build more political capital." Bauer has joined with other prominent conservatives to promote energy independence as a hard, dry national-security issue rather than as soft, wet environmentalism. These conservatives support a major federal push to promote alternative fuels--ethanol, biodiesel, liquefied natural gas--and hybrid-auto technologies. "This is not pie in the sky," says Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, as tough-minded a security hawk as can be found in Washington. "The technology is all there. But you need tax incentives to encourage the automobile...
...There is some enthusiasm within the White House for an alternative-energy push, although it doesn't quite match Gaffney's best-case euphoria. Karl Rove has educated himself on issues as arcane as the vagaries of ethanol transport, and there is a drizzle of funds for research into alternative fuels in Bush's big fat energy bill. But the President and Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build...
...Shakers," says Tim Clarke, CEO of Infinite Spirits, who, together with co-founders Mark Bozzini and master distiller Pat Couteaux, spent two years researching and experimenting with ingredients before introducing the $30-a-bottle vodka in 2003. Distilled in a six-column continuous still in the retrofitted Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson, Minn.--using wheat and rye grown by nearby farmers--Shakers' four flavors of vodka racked up about $4 million in sales in 17 states in 2004. Now the brand is going national. "It's a real cracker of a spirit," says F. Paul Pacult, editor...
Sound too good to be true? It kind of is. The inhalation process takes 20 minutes and looks mildly ridiculous. While AWOL does keep the liver from having to deal with most toxins, your body still has to deal with the effects of ethanol, other congeners, and dehydration. Also, the claim that using AWOL reduces the carbohydrate intake of a night out is suspect at best, since vodka doesn’t actually contain carbs in the first place...
...reveres wine more than the French, but it turns out that even they can have too much of a good thing. The Confederation of French Wine Cooperatives recently asked the European Union for permission to convert 66 million gallons of wine--333 million bottles--into industrial-grade alcohol, including ethanol for French cars. Why? A large grape harvest in 2004 has fed a glut in the French wine market, which is already reeling from tumbling demand. Domestic wine consumption--which makes up 70% of the industry's sales--has dropped sharply in recent years, owing to changing health attitudes...