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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