All these congressional wins in the Midwest will mean a focus on corn-ethanol

[Kolesar]

Which is not a good thing. It is hard to sort a good policy concerning an industry that already gets billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies. I am most concerned that legislators will be distracted and pay attention to corn-ethanol projects which will not solve our energy problem in any respect. All the while, we will have wasted precious years while the carbon-emissions problem gets worse and worse. We don't have a decade to waste. We need demand side reductions immediately.

[TygrBright]

1. You got that right.

There are possibilities in biomass ethanol, but encouraging the monocropping of subsidized, genetically-engineered frankenmaize is not a good solution. If we're going to save our arable soil from the coming dust bowl, we need to get back to smaller, diverse, fully integrated farming operations that mix livestock and varied cropping patterns. Mile after mile of industrial production of biological products ain't gonna help us when the droughts and storms rage.

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Bright