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As much as people like to see farmers as some salt of the earth Americana BS, they basically amount to a landed gentry with lobbying power way beyond what their voice should be in a pluralistic democracy. Even worse now that corporate farms are on the rise with their massive teams of lawyers and lobbyists. They also get farming subsidies.
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Particularly in the US the corn lobby is incredibly powerful. Corn ethanol is not a particularly cheap or efficient fuel to make, yet it's being touted as a big win because it's
MADE IN AMERCIA 
Some not totally horrible article about biofuels not being the second coming of Jesus.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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