The issues

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Processing plants are coming up to convert locally grown corn into ethanol fuel, and alternative fuels, such as biodiesal and E85 - a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline - are offered at gas stations. Concerns over air quality, climate change, and the US dependence on foreign oil have sparked new interests in ethanol and other agriculture-based alternative fuels, but some economists say it takes more energy to produce ethanol than it delivers, if transportation and other costs are included in its production are taken into account.

Government domestic functions, Corn, Corn Farming, By-products

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Should the government continue to promote ethanol as an alternative to imported fuel?

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Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Indiana, Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee, and Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow in Energy Policy and Environmental Protection, CATO Institute debate on whether the US government should continuing to promote ethanol as an alternative imported oil. Lugar supports the issue saying that a revolutionary policy is need to reduce dependence on other countries for gasoline fuels while Taylor opposes the issue saying that high ethanol-production- costs do not make it worth adopting as an alternative fuel.

Executive changes & profiles, Legislative Bodies, Environmental Programs, Foreign Relations, Administration of Environmental Quality Programs, Resources, Environ & Energy-Total Govt, Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Lugar, Richard G., Taylor, Jerry

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The promise-and problems-of ethanol

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Ethanol replaces oil-based fuels, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, but it poses its own threats. Increased production of ethanol from corn will drive up the cost of the widely-used grain. Critics claim that devoting more land to expanded corn production could damage the environment by increasing harmful runoff of pesticides and fertilizers while discouraging the preservation of land for conservation reserves, wetlands, wild life preserves and wilderness.

Air Pollution Control, Waste Management and Remediation Services, Air Pollution Control Programs, Environmental protection, Air quality management, Environmental issue

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