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Dimwit Energy Policies, Record Corn Prices

true liberal Wrote: Aug 11, 2012 8:57 AM
Romney doesn't stand for anything other than being the anti-Obama candidate. It is easy to express what your position is but he does not want the mid-west to go against him if he comes out against ethanol handouts

The price of corn is at all all-time high because of extreme drought conditions in the US coupled with the hottest July temperatures since records began 117 years ago.

Inane Policies

US policy mandates production of ethanol for blending in gasoline. That ethanol comes mostly from corn.

Diverting corn crops to inefficient ethanol production has members of the Group of 20 leading economies – including France, India and China – concerned about the US ethanol policy.


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