October 8, 2008 at 11:03 am
Barack Obama doesn’t have a long career in the United States Senate, but while he has been there he has been a consistent supporter of subsidies and mandates for ethanol (his home state of Illinois is a major corn producer). To this day, it is still a key element in his ‘green jobs‘ platform. So how have Obama’s ethanol policies been effecting the rest of the world. The New York Times reports: A United Nations food agency called on Tuesday for a review of biofuel subsidies and policies, noting that … More
