Word: kammen
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...gallon than gas. And ethanol does little, on balance, to reduce greenhouse gases. Nor does it help that corn ethanol's success depends on imponderables like subsidies, commodity prices, the weather, Congress, the geopolitics of oil and a limited distribution network. "Corn ethanol is clearly flawed," says Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, noting the billions of dollars in subsidies that Uncle Sam has been funneling to distillers for years. "Everything we're seeing is politically expedient; [ethanol is] a scientifically naive choice...