Report: Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs

WASHINGTON –Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use.Higher use of the corn-based fuel additive accounted for about 10 percent to 15 percent of the rise in food prices between April 2007 and April 2008, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

[Rarely has an idea been shown to be so bad so quickly than that of burning a staple food crop. And congress' response?

Increase ethanol mandates this year.]

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Corn Ethanol Will Not Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

California regulators, trying to assess the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, are poised to declare that the biofuel cannot help the state reduce global warming.

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