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Nelson signs letter backing ethanol requirements
Published Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 04:57 AM
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Ben Nelson says blaming ethanol for high food prices isn't fair.
The Nebraska Democratic senator said during a news conference call yesterday that he's signed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency to block cuts to requirements for corn ethanol.
Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota is gathering the signatures in response to a letter from the governor of Texas and 26 senators to the EPA.
That letter asks the EPA to cut in half this year's production requirement for 9 billion gallons of corn ethanol.
Nelson says he suspects the high cost of oil for transportation bears more blame for the high price of food.
The Democrat says opponents simply want to blame the closest thing they can, and ethanol is it.
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