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Senate disguises farm subsidies as energy billThey hope you are not paying
attention
"The
evidence is absolutely unequivocal that corn-based ethanol doesn't reduce net
energy use, since it takes at least as much energy to grow and produce as it
provides. It is even worse as environmental policy, since it almost
certainly increases total pollution and CO2 production, particularly as ethanol
is produced with Midwestern coal-powered electricity. In addition,
it is going to cause marginal lands and open space to be brought into corn
production, reversing a 70-year trend in the US towards increases in wilderness
and forested land. It is going to increase fuel costs to no real
purpose. This is dumb, dumb, dumb. So stupid that I can't even get
the energy to criticize the new CAFE standards. If they really wanted to
meet their goals, a carbon tax would have been cheaper and more effective, but
that would have taken
political
guts."
— Warren Meyer, Senate Passes Massive Farm-Subsidy Bill, June 22, 2007 Probably the best summary of the whole mess I have seen. Let's not forget what this will do to food prices. 
Posted: Sat
- June 23, 2007 at 03:09 PM
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