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Biofuels Subsidies | Friends of the Earth
foe.org - 5/7/2009
Biofuels Subsidies | Friends of the Earth
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Biofuels are not a fledgling industry: last fall the biofuel industry celebrated 30 years of subsidization . Yet, the industry continues to recieve singificant taxpayer funds. Friends of the Earth is working to reform these subsidies so that only the most truly sustainable biofuels benefit from ...
Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say
blogs.wsj.com - 5/8/2009
Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say
— blogs.wsj.com — Wall Street Journal: Replacing oil with home-grown biofuels is already proving to be an environmental headache for... Washington. Fixing that could turn out to be an expensive headache, as well. Environmental groups Earth Track and Friends of the Earth ... (more) Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, ...

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Mulch Blog:  No Friend to Ethanol Subsidies

Commondreams.org Newswire:  Biofuels Slated to Receive More than $400 Billion in Federal Subsidies

Ecoearth.info Blog:  Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say

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No Friend to Ethanol Subsidies
Mulch Blog — ... Today sees the release of a new Friends of the Earth report, Boon to Bad Biofuels, that estimates subsidies to ethanol and biodiesel totaled $9.5 billion in 2008. These subsidies will climb to $60 billion by 2022 if current, flawed policy stays in place. ...

Biofuels Slated to Receive More than $400 Billion in Federal Subsidies
Commondreams.org Newswire — ... . More information about Friends of the Earth's work to roll back environmentally harmful biofuels subsidies can be found at http://www.foe.org/biofuelssubsidies .

Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say
Ecoearth.info Blog — ... for Washington. Fixing that could turn out to be an expensive headache, as well. Environmental groups Earth Track and Friends of the Earth just put out a study quantifying biofuels subsidies through 2022, as the U.S. plans to massively increase production of biofuels. The upshot? The cost to taxpayers would be about $420 billion over that period, or an average of about $28 billion a year. That’s largely because so-called cellulosic ethanol, made from non-edible stuff like grass, gets bigger subsidies than corn ethanol. And government ...

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