LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Scuttling only ethanol tax credits is unjust

The Washington Times
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Yet again The Washington Times has chosen to snub the facts for the sake of disparaging America’s most commercially viable alternative fuel: ethanol (“Burning food,” Comment & Analysis, Nov. 25).

The Times claims that ethanol is an “unnecessary and sometimes harmful additive to gasoline.” First, the editorial ignores the fact that blending clean, biodegradable ethanol in our gasoline reduces life-cycle carbon dioxide and other ozone-forming pollutants entering our air, ultimately saving lives.

Second, the current 45-cent blenders tax credit does not go to the producer, it goes to the refiner - most often, Big Oil.

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