Lawmakers Jump Aboard Ethanol Bandwagon

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2007/may/01/050108125.html

Nebraska hog producer Joy Philippi says livestock farmers "are having jitters" over ethanol, worried there won't be enough corn left for the pigs.

She might as well be talking to a wall.

There is an ethanol juggernaut moving through Congress that will call for a sevenfold increase in biofuels production - almost all of it ethanol - over the next 15 years. Presidential primaries, anger over gasoline prices and global warming make ethanol a potent political issue for both parties.

Just two years ago Congress directed that oil refiners more than double their use of corn-produced ethanol as a gasoline additive to 7.5 billion gallons a year. Lawmakers' sights are now set on several times that amount.

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[RC]

1. Well there goes the rest of our food supply.

China - the food basket of the world.

[hunter]

2. Washington has some nice hookers.

If you say the right things they just appear at your door, and you don't have to pay them.

I think that's how Congress works these days.

[NNadir]

3. I had no idea Neil Bush had been elected to Congress.