Biofuels, hunger, and global warming: Even Al Gore now agrees that ethanol subsidies are wasteful, stupid, and counterproductive. Why don't we end them?

Biofuels aggravate global warming and cause hunger. Why won't the U.S. stop subsidizing them?

Spectators at February's Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race's stock cars now use gasoline with 15 percent corn-based ethanol. It was the start of a seasonlong television marketing campaign to sell the merits of biofuel to Americans.

On the surface, the self-proclaimed "greening of NASCAR" is merely a transparent (and, one suspects, ill-fated) exercise in "greenwashing" for the sport. But the partnership between a beloved American pastime and the biofuel lobby also marks the latest attempt to sway public opinion in favor of a truly irresponsible policy.

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