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Senate’s Fuel Crop: Straw

You know a debate lacks substance when both sides are reduced to offering up straw men!  In a recent Senate Agricultural Committee hearing on the food-versus-fuel debate, Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb) provided this witty sound bite:

I’ll admit, corn-based ethanol’s not perfect, but it’s been blamed for practically every problem under the sun.  What’s next?  Summer colds?  Computer viruses?  Bad hair days?”

Funny, yes.  But more important, the comment serves to highlight the lack of anything positive that can come from the food-for-fuel debate at this point.  Instead of making more hay out of...