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Give Green, Go Yellow
How cash and corporate pressure pushed ethanol to the fore |
Tom Philpott |
06 Dec 2006 |
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| ... got all liquored on that road house corn ... -- Tom Waits, "Gun Street Girl" Before it became widely used as a car fuel, ethanol was just grain liquor -- and the federal government was not particularly kind to it. We pledge allegiance to ADM. Shortly after the American Revolution, the new government imposed a draconian tax on the stuff, hoping to pay down wartime debt. ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, biofuels, business, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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