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Des Moines Reg: Why Grassley should lose his battle to protect ethanol

Des Moines Register, EWG's Craig Cox
Published March 25, 2011

We at Environmental Working Group welcome Sen. Chuck Grassley's call for an honest, fact-based discussion about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels ("Why I Will Continue to Fight for Ethanol," March 12). I wish we agreed with him that corn ethanol is an effective way to break our petroleum addiction - especially since we agree with, and applaud, his efforts to promote wind energy and reform farm subsidies. But our honest evaluation of the facts leads us to a far different conclusion.
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