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US biofuels: A field in ferment
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- Katharine Sanderson writes on the physical sciences for Nature.
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To move US biofuels beyond subsidized corn will be a challenge, reports Katharine Sanderson.
Critics of the US ethanol industry have long derided it as an environmentally questionable subsidy to Mid-western farmers that simply serves a transparently political purpose. Voters in Iowa, the buckle in the US corn belt, get first say in the process of choosing presidential candidates.
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