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New York Times (August 7)

2011/ 08/ 09 by jd in Global News

There’s a sensible way to quickly cut $100 billion from the budget. The Times points to “two obvious and long overdue cuts: ending the web of tax breaks enjoyed by the rolling-in-dough oil industry and terminating the ethanol subsidy.” Over 10 years, eliminating these tax breaks “would save up to $100 billion…without hurting the poor and middle class or slowing the economy.”

 

New York Times (June 24)

2011/ 06/ 25 by jd in Global News

The price of corn has more than doubled in less than a year. Much of the blame lies with subsidies for ethanol, which now consumes 40% of the corn crop. “Washington has managed simultaneously to help drive up food prices and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit, while arguably increasing energy use and harming the environment.”

 

Wall Street Journal (January 22)

2011/ 01/ 23 by jd in Global News

“Four of every 10 rows of U.S. corn now go for fuel, not food.” In 2001, the figure was less than one in 14. This helps explain soaring food inflation. The Journal criticizes the government subsidies behind the shift to fuel use. “At a time when the world will need more corn and grains, it makes no sense to devote scarce farmland to make a fuel that exists only because of taxpayer subsidies and mandates.”

 

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