>House Republicans passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow nationwide year-round sales of E15, a blend of gasoline mixed with 15 percent ethanol, also known as Unleaded 88—a product that refiners and retailers normally cannot sell in around half the country during the summer months due to air pollution concerns.

>Ethanol, a clear, colorless, volatile, and flammable alcohol produced by fermenting sugars from agricultural crops such as corn or sugarcane, generally reduces greenhouse gases, but E15 can produce more smog-forming emissions when it evaporates in heat.

>However, while the E15 rollout can lower prices, ethanol does contains less energy than gasoline, so eventually with E15, a driver will end up burning more fuel for the same amount of distance, albeit fuel which is slightly cheaper than standard gasoline.

So you get less for your buck while polluting more, but hey, at least the price of a tank (that you'll need to refill more often) is lower.

Smog and mirrors, people. Smog and mirrors.

Lake Tahoe doesn’t know where its power will come from after next ski season—and it’s a major problem for the 49,000 residents who call the region home.

The Sierra Nevada tourist hub—home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors—is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities—the small California company that services the region—that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason? NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers. As in: the energy supplier for the Lake Tahoe region is telling the utility company that it has less than a year to find another power source.

Read more here: https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

Meanwhile the trump admin is paying companies two billion of our hard earned tax dollars NOT to provide us with alternative energy sources.

https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-2-billion-buyoff-to-cancel-offshore-wind-farms-is-a-bad-deal-for-american-taxpayers-and-the-us-energy-supply-282456

Why? Probably because Biden was so much smarter than he is and trump desperately wants to destroy his legacy, and because trump finally figured out a way to earn off the petro corps in his second term. Give me lots of money and I'll get rid of the competition for you... And then of course there's his longstanding feud against windmills, because that's just the kind of guy he is.

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job, I'll tell ya. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail. They wold indict me left and right..."

Guys, when even the NY Post gets it...

Hayes speaks with an appropriate amount of outrage, so the reality is you're not going to be able to send this clip to your MAGA family members and make any kind of progress with them. That's okay. Right now I kind of need to hear people that understand just how bad this shit is and are responding accordingly.

It is not, however, vitriol. It's 11 minutes of facts that maybe you can use when you talk to your conservative friends and family. I have to believe this isn't what all of them wanted, and we have to start reaching them somehow.

This is not what democracy looks like.