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Will the energy bill bail out ethanol?
The corn industry hopes Congress will pull its fat out of the fire |
Tom Philpott |
28 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I used to love to start my writing day by taking a poke or two at the corn-based ethanol industry -- you know, the biggest greenwash ever. Photo: mrobenalt These days, the debunking of corn fuel almost seems like it's piling on. Today, two major newspapers -- the LA Times and The Wall Street Journal -- ran front-page stories that essentially say: everyone hates government support for corn-based ethanol, except for people with a direct financial (or polit ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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The Big Three
The numbers behind ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel in the U.S. |
Maywa Montenegro |
04 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| America devours oil like no other country in the world. Representing 5 percent of the global population, the country consumes fully a quarter of the world's oil. Every year, to move ourselves and our goods around, we burn 140 billion gallons of gasoline and 40 billion gallons of diesel -- enough to propel the average U.S. car around the world 1.6 billion times. But rising price ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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