McCain blasts corn subsidies, backs larger Security Council

USA Today
Posted6/15/2008 6:35 PM

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain supports ending subsidies for U.S. ethanol production and would back Brazil's inclusion on an expanded United Nations Security Council, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.

In comments published by the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper, McCain also said he would support Brazil's addition to the Group of Eight industrialized nations and lauded the nation's drive to find clean energy sources.

The United States has "committed a series of errors in not adopting a sustainable energy policy," McCain was quoted as saying. "One of those is the subsidies for ethanol from corn."

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