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 Stories About: agriculture AND biofuels AND energy AND ethanol AND legislation AND politics AND quotables
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David Roberts |
18 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'I really would like to vote for this bill because we desperately need an energy bill. The world and particularly the United States faces a real challenge on energy in the future. But I cannot vote for this bill primarily because of the corn ethanol mandate. A recent article in The Economist noted that our use of corn for ethanol doubled the price of corn about a year ago. Farmers then moved lands from soybeans and what would have been in soybeans and wheat to corn. We ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, ethanol, legislation, politics, quotables (all these topics) |
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