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The villain of the summer blockbuster this year is Rep. Collin Peterson, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Agriculture Committee.(The Week)(ethanol program)(Brief article)

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The villain of the summer blockbuster this year is Rep. Collin Peterson, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Agriculture Committee. With federal ethanol shenanigans driving up the price of corn, movie theaters are feeling the bite as their concession-stand margins are diminished. Making less money from popcorn, cinemas are raising the price of tickets-to $10 in Kansas City, and to $12 in New York. Richard Gil, an economist at the University of Santa Cruz, studies the movie business and predicts that moviegoers will pay an extra buck or two for a ticket by ...

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