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RE :”Before the first gallon gushed from Deepwater Horizon, there existed an 8,500 square mile “dead zone” below the Mississippi River Delta, roughly the size of Connecticut and Delaware combined. Hypoxia, or oxygen depletion, caused by agricultural runoff in the Mississippi River Basin varies from year to year, but it has been on an upward trend as acreage for corn destined to become ethanol increases. As Steven Hayward reports in the Weekly Standard, a 2008 study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that “nitrogen leaching from fertilized cornfields in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River system is a primary cause of the bottom-water hypoxia that develops on the continental shelf of the northern Gulf of Mexico each summer.”

Finally someone calling out biofuels. I thought I was the only one that remembered the great ethanol hoax.

Don't forget, wasteful government programs don't hurt anything if :1) You are told that only the rich pay for them or 2) you get a tax cut (and don't expect #2 from Obama even though he talks about it all the time.)