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To: blam

It wasn’t that long ago that if you brought this subject up right here on FreeRepublic, you were shouted down by the pro-Bush/corn ethanol crowd.


2 posted on 09/04/2011 4:44:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
Burning a basic food crop for fuel is a really, really, really stupid idea.

Subsidizing it is crazy. If it made sense, the government wouldn't have to subsidize it. Borrowing 40 cents of every subsidy dollar is insane.

3 posted on 09/04/2011 4:49:15 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We .. have a purpose .. no longer to please every dictator with a vote at the UN. PM Harper)
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To: SpaceBar

The only place for ethanol is in a drink. These subsidies are a perfect example of the kind of crony capitalism that Sarah was talking about in her speech.

Republicans, especially the Georgetown Cocktail Party set, need to get their collective heads out of their nether regions and realize that they are going to have to wean their business constituent communities OFF the government tit.


4 posted on 09/04/2011 5:12:11 PM PDT by Ronin (Obamanation has replaced Bizarroworld as the most twisted place in the universe.)
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To: SpaceBar

We’re still here, but there’s not much reason to respond to an author who complains that US agriculture is too productive and who is unaware that an acre of corn requires less potash than an acre of the forage with which he would replace the corn.


18 posted on 09/04/2011 7:31:20 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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