“Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices,” Reuters reports.
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Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
by Marlow Lewis
June 06, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
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