餐饮业与能源业的谷物之争(2/2)
概述：谷物既可成为餐桌上的美食，又可变身汽油（含乙醇）的原料。到底是我们吃汉堡，还是让车“吃”生物燃料，这是个问题。Hints:
Renewable Fuels Association
Bob Dinneen
Chicago Board of Trade
Westhoff
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口语节目地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11921/item/704305/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201212/20121208105750557632.mp3But ethanol's backers disagree that the law is driving up food prices.
Renewable Fuels Association chief Bob Dinneen says suspending it would not change the price of corn much.
"It moves three or four cents on a sneeze on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. So waiving this program wasn't going to provide any relief. Ethanol was not driving the price increase. There was no reason to waive the program."
Dinneen says ethanol is reducing dependence on foreign oil and holding down the price of gasoline.
Ethanol is typically cheaper than petroleum. Fuel makers now add it to gasoline regardless of the law. So waiving the mandate would not matter much for now.
Current policy calls for increased use of ethanol. Westhoff says that will require even more corn and put more pressure on food prices.
Until alternatives to corn ethanol materialize, the tension between burgers and biofuels will continue.乙醇的支持者们却对该法律迫使食物价格上涨的说法不以为然。（该法律要求美国汽油中需要添加乙醇。）
再生能源协会会长Bob Dinneen说，废止该法律并不会对玉米价格有多大的影响。
“该法律只是稍稍改变了芝加哥交易所大厅里的三四美分而已。所以，废除这个项目丝毫不能减轻食品价格压力。乙醇并没有抬高食品价格。没有理由废除这个项目。”
Dinneen说乙醇的使用减少了对国外石油的依赖，压低了汽油的价格。
乙醇的价格明显低于石油，不管有没有这条法律，现在燃料生产商都会把乙醇添加到汽油里。所以废止这项要求如今没什么意义。
当前的政策要求增加乙醇的使用。韦斯特霍夫说这会需要更多的玉米，给食品价格帶來更大的压力。
餐饮业和生物燃料的玉米之争将会持续下去，直到玉米乙醇的替代品出现。
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