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Congress ends corn ethanol subsidy

Corn ethanol, a bad idea whose time has gone. Buh-bye , unless they try to sneak it through again. But there is major Congressional opposition to this wasteful practice that doesn’t work well, drives up food prices, and exists primarily to give patronage to Big…

How to save taxpayers $6 billion a year

Repeal the subsidy on corn ethanol, says Sen. Jim Webb and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. They have introduced a bill to do so. Corn ethanol is wasteful and an obvious giveaway to agribusiness. Other methods of making ethanol are much more…