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Tell Congress to Stop Wasteful Tax Subsidies

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Clean Water Action needs your help to change the way our country thinks about corn ethanol. Our elected officials in Washington will have to decide soon about extending a tax credit to the corn ethanol that costs over $4 billion per year. We think it's time to rethink this subsidy.

Much of the gas that fills our cars has a percentage of corn ethanol in it. In 2004, Congress created the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), a subsidy for blending corn ethanol into gasoline. In 2007, the Renewable Fuel Standard mandated the same thing: blending of ethanol into gasoline. Despite this mandate, the tax credit continues and taxpayers have contributed $20 billion to subsidize ethanol-blending, even though it is now required by law.

This credit is clearly duplicative and wasteful, and causes more concern when impacts on water, other natural resources and food production are considered.

Corn ethanol production requires large amounts of water for irrigation of corn crops and for processing - in some states growing and processing a liter of corn ethanol uses over 1,000 gallons of water!

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Your U.S. Senators and Representatives need to hear from you today that they should not renew VEETC, which is set to expire this year! While we map our clean energy future, now is the time to put the brakes on an unnecessary tax subsidy. Tell our elected officials not to renew VEETC! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2155/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=4999&tag=taf.4999

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