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Harley Rider
Seems like someone finally gets it. A reporter no less; Karen Hosler said:
Time to End the Ethanol Subsidy - Southern Maryland Headline News
"Didn’t Al Gore tell us it would fight global warming through cleaner motor vehicle emissions? Didn’t George W. Bush promise this home-grown grain byproduct would reduce U.S. dependence on expensive foreign oil?
...I may have been the only dope who fell for any of this, but the Senate has set me straight. In perhaps the single worthwhile step taken recently by what used to be called the world’s most deliberative body, a 72 to 27 majority of senators signaled last month that they are ready to end $6 billion in annual subsidies to the ethanol blenders and refiners...
When senators return to Washington in September — tanned, rested and ready — voters should demand they follow through with a stake to the heart of this scam. And then there’s the punch line: Corn-based ethanol as an environmental benefit was all a hoax from the beginning. It doesn’t reduce greenhouse gases,; it raises the price of corn used for food; it can’t survive without subsidies; and it never represented a long-term source of transportation fuel...
Mr. Global Warming, Al Gore, admitted as much at a conference in Athens last year when he called his support for corn-based ethanol a “mistake.”
Time to End the Ethanol Subsidy - Southern Maryland Headline News