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Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production

Posted by timothy on from the but-think-of-the-poor-candlemakers dept.

drdread66 writes "A nationwide corn shortage brought on by last year's drought has started to curtail ethanol production. While this shouldn't be surprising to anyone, it raises public policy issues regarding ethanol usage requirements in motor fuel. Given that the energy efficiency of ethanol fuel is questionable at best, is it time to lift the mandate for ethanol in our gasoline?"

4 of 419 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Kill Corn Subsidies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you had your way then we'd all be reduced to using real sugar.

  2. If we can't drink and drive by kawabago · · Score: 5, Funny

    neither should our vehicles.

  3. Ethanol: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's what cars crave.

  4. Re:corn no, hemp yes by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smoke the hemp and people won't want to go anywhere or do anything. Think of all the fuel we will save.

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