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• Sep 23, 2009 AMI, Coalition Publish Ad Opposing Increase In Ethanol Blend Levels AMI, in partnership with a number of other trade organizations, voiced its opposition today to the use of mid-level ethanol blends in commerce in a full page print advertisement titled “E15? Bad for Consumers. Bad for the Environment. Bad for Rural Communities” in Roll Call, the newspaper of...     Cattle Network        more   
• Jul 15, 2009 Livestock Organizations Applaud No-Subsidy Ethanol Bill A bill which would Legislation phase out government support for corn-based ethanol over five years has been introduced in the House of Representatives.     California Farmer        more   
• Jun 12, 2009 Should We Have More Hunger or Ethanol in Fuel? Corn is a staple food in many countries not only for humans but also as feed for cattle. Lower yield of corn globally could create more hunger. Eventually the prices for both the corn and meat would increase.     Commodity Online        more   
• Jun 9, 2009 Ethanol Blend Hike May Require Half of U.S. Corn Crop A proposed increase in ethanol use in gasoline would require planting as much as 111 million acres of corn and using almost half of the crop for the fuel by 2015, according to a study by the U.S. grocery industry.     Bloomberg        more   
• Jun 3, 2009 Ethanol's Grocery Bill The Obama Administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline to 15% from 10%. Apparently no one in the Administration has read a pair of new studies, one from its own EPA, that expose ethanol as a bad deal...     Wall Street Journal        more   
• Apr 24, 2009 Then and Now, Ethanol blunder should make us wary of new EPA ruling If you think the Environmental Protection Agency knew what it was doing with its sweeping mid-April announcement about greenhouse gases, it might be good to go back and get yourself a refresher course on the EPA and ethanol.     Worldmag.com        more   
• Jan 13, 2009 AMI: Coalition Urges Congress To Increase Investments In Second Generation Biofuels AMI has joined a coalition of food and agriculture groups in signing a letter to Congressional leaders in support of the development of second generation biofuels.     Cattle Network        more   
• Jan 1, 2009 Food Before Fuel To some, the ethanol industry is like an adult child still living at home, taking allowance from Mom and Dad. "It's time to cut the umbilical cord," said Joel Brandenberger, president, National Turkey Federation, Wshington, D.C., to a diverse group gathered last November to call on the next...     Food Product Design        more   
• Jan 1, 2009 Corn Ethanol's Straw Man Over the past year, an open and honest public debate has begun about corn ethanol. Unfortunately, when those of us in the animal agriculture industries have raised concerns about the effect corn ethanol policies are having on our businesses, our communities and our consumers, we are often branded...     Meatingplace        more   
• Dec 24, 2008 An Ethanol Bailout? And we thought we'd seen everything. Along with Russia, Venezuela, Iran and the Dubai property market, add another name to the list of bubble economies hurt by the falling price of oil: the ethanol industry. And naturally, the ethanol lobby is looking for a bailout on top of its regular taxpayer...     Wall Street Journal        more...  
• Dec 23, 2008 Corn Ethanol Economics I'm really baffled by this report by an economist at Purdue. It starts at the second sentence: The industry now must get past an imposing wall of federal regulations and market conditions if it hopes to grow     The LRC Blog        more   
• Dec 10, 2008 Conservationists Join Push to Reconsider, Revise U.S. Biofuels Mandate The world's largest conservation organization, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is aligning itself with large food producers to pare back ethanol subsidies through a major lobbying thrust aimed at persuading Congress to reconsider the U.S. biofuels mandate under a broad debate on "sustainability,"...     Foodmarket News        more   
• Oct 31, 2008 Ethanol Fuel Mandates Cause Massive Food and Land Costs A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute reveals massive food and land costs stemming from government rules mandating use of corn ethanol for fuel.     Lexis Nexis        more   
• Jul 25, 2008 Our View on energy: Ethanol production soars, but its allure plummets For the past quarter-century, U.S. energy policy has been generally non-existent. To the extent there has been one, it has been to keep gasoline cheap. But one element stands out as a dramatic exception to this minimalist approach. Through a series of generous tax subsidies and production...     USA Today        more   
• Jul 24, 2008 Fix Ethanol Mess All it takes is a trip to the supermarket or a drive by any gas station to see that something has gone terribly wrong with America's fuel policy.     The San Diego Union Tribune        more   
• Jul 7, 2008 NY Times ED Man-Made Hunger NY Times Editorial
  Thirty countries have already seen food riots this year. The ever higher cost of food could push tens of millions of people into abject poverty and starvation     balancedfoodandfuel-old.org        more   
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