So they did it anyway....even with Growth Energy, the biggest ethanol lobby of all, being against it.
"Washington, D.C. - Congressional negotiators have agreed to extend the 45-cent-per-gallon subsidy for ethanol for one year and also continue a tariff on imports of the biofuel, said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Ia.
The tariff will continue at 45 cents per gallon through 2011, said Grassley, who announced Thursday evening that the provisions would be included in tax legislation worked out with the White House.
The bill also would resurrect and extend for another year the $1-a-gallon subsidy for biodiesel that expired at the end of 2009"
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101210/BUSINESS01/12100334/1001/NEWS/Grassley-Deal-struck-to-extend-ethanol-subsidy
Facking idiots.