In the announcement of their "100 Hour" agenda, Democrats targeted expanding research and investment in alternative energy as a key priority. This development is long overdue, and should be celebrated as a major step towards embracing a diversified 21st century energy economy.
The plan, however, has a major pitfall: an over-reliance on corn based ethanol. We need to make sure that in trying to solve one problem--our dependence on imported oil--we do not create a far more serious one: soaring...
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