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First Corn Ethanol Next Fat Ethanol
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28/12/2007 12:43:59
Victor Chigne
Inteliventas
Peru
 
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Exactly the same here. Corn farmers from here and from your country were the ones who lobbied hard enough to exclude corn from the FTA. As a bonus your corn farmers got sugar ethanol export penalties....


>>>>http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=279628
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>>>>That is 10 miles from me.
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>>>Why is everyone wanting to use corn when surgar is better way to go?
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>>Any corn farmer could tell you the answer :)
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>>Sugar ethanol if far more efficent and don't have any impact in the chain food. But most of this should be imported from other countries (like mine). American farmers have lobbied so hard on this that in the recently approved FTA between USA and Peru this was explicitely excluded.
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>All the agriculture lobbies are hugely influential here. It's mostly to their benefit, not ours (consumers).
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