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The GM investment may actually be perceived as positive for the ethanol stocks, as this is another endorsement of ethanol generally. Don't overestimate how sophisticated the market is.

Why Are Ethanol Investors Shunning Optimist News?

Perhaps because things aren't as perfect for ethanol as they seem:
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<b>As ethanol demand grows, so does 'Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico</b>

...U.S. farmers this spring planted the most acreage with corn since 1944, after demand for ethanol pushed the grain's price to a 10-year high.

That has increased the level of farm waste flowing into the Mississippi River basin, which scientists blame for creating a pocket along the Louisiana coast where shrimp and other sea life cannot survive.

The Gulf of Mexico's so-called Dead Zone is expected to cover a record 8,543 square miles, or 22,126 square kilometers, this year and stretch into waters off Texas...

Corn fuels the zone because it requires more nitrogen-based fertilizer than crops like soybeans... Nitrogen and other nutrients eventually reach the Gulf of Mexico, feeding microscopic organisms that deplete oxygen levels as they die and decompose on the sea floor. Shrimp and fish suffocate unless they escape...
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Source:
www.iht.com/articles/2...