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Despite Its Huge Flaws, Ethanol Is Political Holy Water in DC

By Robert Bryce, The Washington Spectator. Posted July 7, 2007.


The inconvenient truth is that ethanol is bad for taxpayers, bad for air quality, bad for people who like to eat, and it will have no real effect on America's overall energy mix -- too bad DC's politicians won't say anything about it.
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Texas-based journalist Robert Bryce is the managing editor of Energy Tribune magazine. His third book, about the mirage of energy independence, will be published early next year.

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