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Old 06-30-2009, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by kork13 View Post
These are the main reasons I have issue with the recent trend moving in favor of ethanol -- Less efficient, costing the USG millions (billions?) in subsidies, no real environmental benefit, and all the while it consumes food resources, driving up food costs. Commercialized ethanol exists for purely political reasons.
Seems to be. When corn is $7-10 and everything at the grocery store is skyrocketing in price, hopefully it will become explicitly clear that ethanol is not the answer.
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