Cutting spending in Congress is so difficult because every area of the budget is defended by an army of special interests and perverse alliances that often defy reason and common sense. Nowhere is this more evident than with the federal government’s ludicrous $6 billion subsidy of ethanol, which I and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-MD, have proposed to eliminate.

A recent post in The Examiner illustrated why the ethanol subsidy endures despite widespread opposition from the Left and the Right. On one hand, your writer declares, “government support for ethanol is among the most destructive and wasteful giveaways to special interests today.”