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Besides funding an expensive way to make fuel, government subsidies for ethanol production have rocked the market in unexpected ways.  Food prices have soared, conservation is being rolled back, and stockpiles of staples have dwindled to all-time lows. 

Haven't we learned by now that government subsidies to industry just don't work?  When the government intervenes in the food chain, all kinds of tragic things happen, like the soaring rates of school-age and low-income obesity under the Farm Bill stewardship of the USDA.  That is the kind of infrastructure support we can do without.