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EPA Nixes Relaxing of Ethanol Rule

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The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday denied a request by Texas to temporarily cut federal ethanol requirements for the nation's fuel supply, saying the state had not proved that the recent rise in corn prices is severely hurting its economy. (Washington Post [1], Friday)

The central bureaucracy is all-knowing.

FEE Timely Classic
Ethanol versus the Poor [2] by P. Gardner Goldsmith


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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702758.html

[2] Ethanol versus the Poor: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-Freeman/article.asp?aid=8174

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