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05-05-2008, 08:03 PM
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain and other GOP senators Monday urged environmental regulators to ease rules demanding a sharp increase in ethanol use to help head off further increases in food prices.
The energy bill that passed Congress with bipartisan support in 2007 requires U.S. fuel marketers to increase the use of biofuels fivefold by 2022. But McCain and 23 other Republicans, including many who supported the bill, called on the Environmental Protection Agency to waive or roll back the law’s requirements in order to ease pressure on food and livestock feed prices.
“Although many factors may contribute to high food costs, food-to-fuel mandates are the only factors that can be reconsidered in light of current circumstances,” they wrote. “American families are feeling the strain of these food-to-fuel mandates in the grocery aisle and are growing concerned about the emerging environmental concerns of growing corn-based ethanol.”
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The energy bill that passed Congress with bipartisan support in 2007 requires U.S. fuel marketers to increase the use of biofuels fivefold by 2022. But McCain and 23 other Republicans, including many who supported the bill, called on the Environmental Protection Agency to waive or roll back the law’s requirements in order to ease pressure on food and livestock feed prices.
“Although many factors may contribute to high food costs, food-to-fuel mandates are the only factors that can be reconsidered in light of current circumstances,” they wrote. “American families are feeling the strain of these food-to-fuel mandates in the grocery aisle and are growing concerned about the emerging environmental concerns of growing corn-based ethanol.”
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/