Biofuels, hunger, and global warming: Even Al Gore now agrees that ethanol s...

Biofuels, hunger, and global warming: Even Al Gore now agrees that ethanol subsidies are wasteful, stupid, and counterproductive. Why don't we end them?

via Slate Magazine by Bjørn Lomborg on 3/10/11

SYDNEY—Spectators at February's Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race's stock cars now use gasoline with 15 percent corn-based ethanol. It was the start of a seasonlong television marketing campaign to sell the merits of biofuel to Americans.

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