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Sweetening the deal

Posted on July 03, 2008

By Kate Sheppard Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) stopped by ($ub. req'd) the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to give a speech arguing that Congress should lift the 54-cents-a-gallon tariff on imported ethanol. To demonstrate leadership the United States should lift its tariff on Brazilian ethanol that now shelters the U.S. industry, Lugar told the AEI crowd. Many politicians -- including Lugar, who's from a big corn state -- have supported the tariff to protect American biofuels from Brazil's cheaper sugarcane ethanol. But now there's a growing movement calling for elimination of the ta...

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