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Marvin O. Maul of Colorado Springs writes:

In your editorial entitled “Congress should get off ethanol bandwagon,” your “ethanol boondoggle” characterization of the headlong pro-ethanol plunge by our President, Congress and environmental groups, as well as a legion of others who should know better, is right on the button.
Additionally, we may be facing the imminent prospect of an ecological and environmental disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in the history of the modern environmental movement, there has never been to my knowledge, a substantive study of the potential for a massive toxic environmental impact following the combustion of ethanol in the millions of tiny combustion chambers in the engines of our millions of automobiles. The possibility of the wide-spread manifestation of toxic side-effects in our human population is enormous, given the absence of environmental impact data showing otherwise.
It is most dismaying to me that scientific benefit-to-risk discourse in such an important matter seems to have been sidetracked by the popular but illusory win/win situation that development of bio-fuels are supposed to be providing us.
I hope that it is not too late for more rational, scientific and economics based inquiry into the real consequences of this misguided effort. The economic damage to our agricultural sector particularly the livestock industry is already being felt, with a lot more in the offing.

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