When the first two sentences of the executive summary are both laughable, it’s reasonable to assume there are more chuckles to follow. And Taylor’s presentation did not disappoint.

Taylor told the committee he had concrete data on topics like “measurable impacts in terms of Iowa agriculture” and “a breakdown of where electricity is generated in Iowa.”

He can be forgiven the slip-up. When grifting keeps you on the road all the time, it’s easy to forget where you are.

And Taylor sells his snake oil all over. In his Heartland Institute bio, he brags that he has appeared on CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel and MSNBC, among other networks, and given presentations to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Council of State Governments and the National Association of Counties, among other organizations.

Of course, Taylor was in the Gem State, not the Hawkeye State. (You’d figure a guy from the “Heartland Institute” would know the difference). And in Idaho, conditions look nothing like what he described.