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To: Ish who wrote (246164)	4/9/2002 12:34:59 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

This should make you happy, the Dems may do the right thing on ANWR just to keep the ethanol boondoggle alive. CORNED IN On March 20 The Prowler reported on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. John Kerry's jockeying over who would lead the possible filibuster over pending legislation to allow oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Now it turns out each may have to swallow hard and actually vote for the bill. All because pro-ethanol Republicans and Democrats on the Energy Committee inserted an amendment in the bill renewing the sweetheart subsidy for the fuel alternative. And ethanol is the hot political issue every election cycle in Iowa, home of corn, ethanol producers and ... the first presidential caucus in the country. "It's almost always the first question a presidential candidate has to answer in Iowa, 'Do you support ethanol subsidies?'" says an Energy and Natural Resources Committee staffer. "And it's always an issue for us. I don't know how either Kerry or Daschle avoid it, unless they can successfully remove the amendment, and that could come back to haunt them too." "Kerry and Daschle can't afford to waffle on this," says a Democratic leadership staffer, pointing out that other potential Democratic candidates are positioned to pounce. "Dick Gephardt has had great grassroots operations in Iowa in the past and that can be key to a caucus. The ethanol issue is one he could make hay with." americanprowler.org btw, CA scrapped its alcohol-fueled buses because the alcohol destroyed the engines. btw2, alcohol fuel produces its own pollutants, some say worse than unleaded. Nitrogen oxides.