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Thirty years to hone an argument
Arguments supporting government subsidies of agrofuels are getting polished |
biodiversivist |
19 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is my formal rebuttal to David Morris's 'case for corn-based fuel.' I'm using my access to the bully pulpit to pull it out of the comments field. How did the use of ethanol end up alongside tyranny and torture as an evil to be conquered? That's easy. A whole lot of real smart people have been giving corn ethanol a lot of thought and have found that 'an evil to be conquered' isn't a bad description. In smaller quantities, it does smaller amounts of damage, b ... |
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