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Bush’s Split Personality
Unfortunately, Bush also proposes government mandates to buy “alternative fuels” including ethanol. This departure from free-markets in favor of big government is disappointing, given, as readers of this blog are well aware, ethanol producers already depend on government subsidies; ethanol mandates are driving up the cost of fuel and food; foreign ethanol faces high tariffs; and ethanol production, use, and transportation use more gasoline than ethanol saves. Not exactly the way to become “energy independent”