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.
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.
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.
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.