EDITORIAL: Stop ‘Big Corn’

From the WASHINGTON TIMES:

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to dump more corn into your fuel tank this summer, and it’s going to cost more than you think.

The agency is expected to approve a request from 52 ethanol producers known collectively as “Growth Energy” to boost existing requirements that gasoline contain 10 percent ethanol to 15 percent. The change means billions more in government subsidies for companies in the business of growing corn and converting it into ethanol. For the rest of us, it means significantly higher gasoline and food prices.

It’s time that this shameless corporate welfare gets plowed under…

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