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The corn supremacy
A new piece on the insanity that is U.S. ethanol policy |
Joseph Romm |
20 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I have an article in Salon on the insanity that is America's ethanol policy. The new energy bill sets this country on a path to finish the assault on the world food supply begun by the (even lamer) 2005 energy bill. As I explain, our ethanol policy does not help fight global warming, but it does threaten food supplies: In just the past two years, food prices have jumped 75 percent in real terms ... The Economist points out the amazing statistic that "the deman ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, ethanol, food, politics (all these topics) |
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Time for some rehab
Agriculture is drunk on corn-based ethanol |
Thomas Dobbs |
14 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Dobbs is Professor Emeritus of Economics at South Dakota State University, and a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy Fellow. ----- American agriculture is becoming addicted to corn-based ethanol, and the economic and environmental effects of this addiction call for some intervention! The explosive growth in U.S. ethanol production from corn is having worldwide ramifications. December 6 articles in The Economist ('Cheap no more' ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, economy, ethanol, food, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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