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Your Washington correspondent reporting on Gov. Edgar`s plug for ethanol from corn might have rounded out the story better by pointing out what subsidy the producers get. The 1 billion gallons of ethanol (Gov. Edgar`s number) that go into gasohol yield to the producers $1.4 billion because of waiver of federal tax. A billion here and a billion there and . . . well, you know how it goes.