Global A.D.D.

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com Britain's The Independent is, in many ways, Britain's most irritating broadsheet, not least because of its relentless, and catastrophe-laden, enviropreachiness. That unkind Mr. Eugenides has now posted this gem from an editorial that ran in the paper back in November 2005: At last, some refreshing signs of intelligent thinking on climate change are coming out of Whitehall. The Environment minister, Elliot Morley, reveals today in an interview with this newspaper that the Government is drawing up plans to impose a "biofuel obligation" on oil companies. And here is what that same newspaper was asking on April 15th, 2008, less than three years later: The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world's environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?