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The dangers of ethanol?
The dangers of ethanol
Rising gas and food prices show the risk in economic miracles.
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(Fortune Magazine) — Now that milk and gasoline can cost $3.50 each, filling up your grocery cart or SUV has become an exercise in pain. Most people just wince, pay, and get along as best they can. But someone like me can’t help but see these price spikes as a nasty side effect of America’s ethanol program. How nasty? Think of the recent film starring Will Smith, “I Am Legend.”
The dangers of ethanol?