Ethanol boondoggle (revisited)
                   
semissourian.com     May 13, 2008            

An op-ed I wrote for this newspaper in September 2006 titled "The ethanol boondoggle" elicited two spirited responses. From 1995 to 2004, taxpayer-financed subsidies to corn growers totaled $41.9 billion, with Missouri farmers receiving $1.3 billion. In Missouri, more than 50 percent of the total... [read full story]                

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