Tired of illegal immigration from Mexico? Then you might start lobbying your Congressrat to do away with the ethanol scam. It’s enriching Iowa farmers (especially agribusiness), sure, but it’s adding to the impoverishment of the Mexican poor. When they’ve had enough, guess where they’ll set out for? Instead, we could push our pols to do something sensible for a change, like lifting the restrictions on drilling for more oil, instead of protecting a bunch of Alaskan caribou–and keeping the ag lobby happy.
MORE: But sugarcane and cellulosic biofuels–especially cellulosic–make sense, to me.
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