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    Ethanol derived from corn is bad joke, and would not even EXIST but for government subsidies, which were only designed to bail out a bunch of broke corn farmers in the first place. Ethanol made from biomass and sugar are a different question, but due to EXISTING corn ethanol subsidies and government sugar TARIFFS, are years away from helping out in any meaningful way.

    Conversely, U.S. NG reserves have DOUBLED during the past ten years. And Boone Pickens is taking a multi-billion dollar gamble to power American trucks using LNG (NOT CNG) instead of diesel, which would curtail imported oil demand, lower prices and improve the environment.

    How about this? Let's kill the 81-cent a gallon corn ethanol subsidy, and you go ahead with e-85. And let's end sugar tariffs and open up the OCS and ANWR to oil and gas exploration at the same time. We'd have lower prices at the pump AND the grocery store as a result.

    (And this would also have the ancillary benefit of my not having to listen to any more Iowan university economists tell me how corn ethanol takes less energy to produce than it provides, which only DISPUTES ALL KNOWN SCIENCE.)





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