At their latest gathering on January 23rd, held to the great embarrassment of the local mayor at the Osaka International Peace Centre, they managed to do what they have not been able to achieve in ages: stir up a hornet's nest of interest.

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Even with the evidence against this fuel--its energy inefficiency and environmental harm--he probably won't feel he can stir up a political hornet's nest and cut back various ethanol subsidies, particularly the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on competing Brazilian-produced sugar-based ethanol.

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