Sentences with phrase «as the ethanol lobby»
They would have to collude to fix their prices (as the ethanol lobby always claims grocery chains do when the price of food spikes), which is illegal.
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The Canadian ethanol lobby should be just as fearful.
Reform legislation in the U.S. by environmental - leaning Democrats — New Mexico's Tom Udall and Vermont's Peter Welch — is now gathering support in both houses of Congress, aided by an environmental lobby determined to end subsidies to ethanol as well as its mandated use.
There are also other longer term political considerations: if sugarcane ethanol is kept out, the corn ethanol folks might lobby to lift the cap on corn ethanol and allow it to qualify as an advanced biofuel.
To protect their entirely subsidy reliant profits those renewable energy industries are now replete with massive lobbying organisations geared entirely, ie; corn ethanol as an example, one of many, towards protecting the entirely subsidy reliant profitability of the renewable energy industries.
But with cellulosic ethanol proving to be a complete dud, corn growners and ethanol producers are lobbying to redefine corn ethanol as «advanced.»
Thankfully, Barack Obama has indicated that he wants to advance cellulosic ethanol research, but we mustn't rest on that assurance alone and continue to monitor his commitment here so that he doesn't get swayed by the corn lobby into, as the original article suggests (perhaps prematurely), continue the failed policies of the Bush administration in promoting biofuels.