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To: Ish who wrote (215277)	1/28/2007 12:54:26 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Because the government wasn't pimping ethanol THEN like it is now! Which you corn farmer welfare queens LOVE, don't you? We could buy all the cheap ethanol we need from Brazil. taxpayer.net "However, the huge ethanol subsidies given out year after year have benefited few besides corn growers and ethanol producers, who are often just different units of the same large company. Despite the lobbyists' claims, ethanol has neither reduced dependence on foreign oil nor significantly helped to reduce pollution. Taxpayers' repeated payments in the form of subsidies to corn growers, ethanol producers, and opportunity cost serve no other purpose than to artifically prop up the corn and ethanol industry." It's odd that Ish NEVER makes a peep when some right wingnut complains about farm subsidies or the protective tariffs that inflate our food costs on LindyBill's Church of W. THEY agree that farmers should compete in a free, open, global market, just like the rest of us non-welfare receiving Americans. Why IS that Ish?