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With the federal debts reaching record levels and the debt ceiling fast approaching, Americans want their elected leaders to look beyond their differences and seek common ground for the common good.

That’s just what three influential senators have done in reaching a compromise solution to one of the nation’s most difficult and divisive issues: how to invest in American-made alternatives to imported oil at a time of tight federal budgeting.

Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), a critic of ethanol incentives, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD), who hail from ethanol-producing states, have arrived at an agreement that should be acceptable to both sides of the biofuels debate.

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