Herseth Sandlin defends ethanol - again

Korrie Wenzel
The Daily Republic (Mitchell, SD)
Published Saturday, May 10, 2008

As calls go out to Congress to reduce the nation’s output of alternative fuels, South Dakota’s lone member of the House of Representatives this week launched another verbal counterattack she hopes will convince people that ethanol is not the culprit behind rising worldwide food costs.

Ethanol production in the United States has gone from nearly zero in the early 1980s to more than 6 billion gallons in recent years. Correspondingly, corn prices have risen and more producers are planting the crop. Meanwhile, critics argue that fewer bushels are going toward feeding the world’s population.

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