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Friday, December 08, 2006
A Minnesota Democrat pissing me off
This is the kind of thing that can really piss me off about my own party:
Like hell we're not! Oil is still over $60 a barrel, comes too often from backwards despots making their own countries and the world as a whole a worse (and more dangerous) place, and is a major cause of global warming and environmental degradation. When some peaceful nation has an alternative fuel to sell us cheaper than we can produce it ourselves there are about a dozen reasons why it is a good idea for us to buy it and almost none why we shouldn't. Brazil isn't making the stuff with child or prison labor or anything. Their only "crime" is that they are producing a rival product to one produced by some of the people who voted for Peterson. Now of course I'm sympathetic to economic development in outstate Minnesota but believe it or not there are more important things in the world than protecting potential revenues to local constituents.Minnesota Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson, the incoming chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, returned from a week-long trip to South America on Monday and said the United States needs to keep a close eye on Brazil and Argentina.
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Peterson said Brazil, which is a big producer of ethanol from sugar cane, wants to export ethanol to the United States. "I made it pretty clear to them that we're not interested," he said.
