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The one bill my family cringes at receiving each month is the electric bill. We keep the house no warmer than 68 degrees in the winter and it is still a bill to be reckoned with. Ethanol is destructive to vehicles and Obama is making darned sure we pay whatever the going OPEC price for oil. Meanwhile drilling here in and offshore our own country is taboo.

EPA approves wider use of destructive corn ethanol

• Car owners whose engines and catalytic converters may be damaged even as auto makers void their warranties.
• Owners of lawnmowers, outboard motors, chain saws, ATVs and a host of other outdoor tools whose engines will break down if they’re fueled with E15.
• The environment, as this misguided policy encourages all-out corn production and the massive water pollution that results, ultimately reinforcing the devastating “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay.
• Birds and other wildlife, which will lose habitat as large-scale farmers expand into marginal and highly erodible land.
And who was the winner from EPA’s ill-advised decision? Just one group: the corn ethanol lobby and corn growers, who already profit from taxpayer-funded tax credits and grants for small producers, a tax credit for blending ethanol with gasoline, government mandates to boost ethanol use and tariffs that block imports from offshore sources.