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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2011</span>/06/13/koch-brothers-ethanol-subsidies-grover-norquist_n_876430.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON — Opponents of ethanol subsidies got a boost Monday from Koch Industries as the company announced its opposition to the giveaways on the eve of a major vote in the Senate.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing a vote on an amendment Tuesday that would end ethanol subsidies and eliminate tariffs on foreign supplies of the biofuel. That would allow companies to use sugar-based Brazilian ethanol, which is cheaper than the domestic corn-based variety, though <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/amazon.pdf" target="hplink" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":0}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">presents environmental challenges.</a></font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ethanol is a key national issue for the GOP because of the importance of Iowa’s early caucus to the presidential primary. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah) is skipping the state, he has said, because his opposition to the subsidies is toxic in the state. The issue has split the Republican Party, with free market advocates and deficit hawks pushing for elimination of the subsidies and corn-state politicians fighting back.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The conservative power broker Grover Norquist has battled Coburn, arguing that ending the handouts is equivalent to increasing taxes, meaning that candidates who signed a no-new-taxes pledge would be breaking their word. He has <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/04/25/grover-norquist-claims-tom-coburn-lied-his-way-into-office/" target="hplink" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":1}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">charged</a>that Coburn “lied his way into office.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norquist has been critical of Coburn and other Republicans who have highlighted the yawning federal deficit, arguing that the focus should be on reducing spending rather than trimming the national debt. He worries that if the American people are forced to choose between the two ways of reducing the deficit — tax hikes or spending cuts — they’ll eventually pick tax increases.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the Kochs are public about their politics and occasionally engage <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/166261-four-more-republicans-abandon-pickens-natural-gas-bill" target="hplink" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":2}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">directly with legislation</a>, it is rare for the Kochs to get in the trenches with a letter on a specific amendment as they’ve done in Coburn’s case. But it might not be enough to get his amendment over the top. In order to get a vote on it, Coburn pulled a procedural move that irked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who responded by calling on his caucus to oppose the amendment on procedural grounds.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coburn said that such a move will put Democrats on the wrong side of public opinion. “Go home and explain to your constituency you didn’t vote on a bill, an amendment, because you didn’t like the way it was brought up, regardless of the substance,” he told HuffPost on Tuesday before the vote. “Rule 22 allows any senator to offer an amendment, so I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. The only reason I used that procedure is because they don’t allow us to have any votes.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Coburn and Koch Industries have been in discussion about the political issue for several months. But ultimately, the company says, the Koch’s commitment to free-market principles overrides the fact that their company benefits from the subsidies.</b></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Koch Industries has opposed federal mandates and subsidies for decades,” the letter to Coburn, written by the <a href="http://politi.co/muwKf3" target="hplink" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":3}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">Kochs’ lobbyist</a>, reads. “Our aim is to create a free market where consumers decide winners and losers based on which products they decide to buy, instead of government picking winners and losers based on which friends or products it chooses to subsidize. One such government intervention is the tax credit that provides about $6 billion each year to blenders of ethanol.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We hold this position despite the fact that we benefit from these tax credits,” the letter points out.</b></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Koch Industries will, however, continue to exploit the credits, if they aren’t repealed.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We oppose ethanol subsidies because they distort economic signals about price and demand and create inefficiencies that divert resources from productive activities to politically favored ones. We have also opposed subsidies for natural gas vehicles and other biofuels for these same reasons,” the Koch letter reads. “Still, our company now produces and blends ethanol, because while we would prefer that there be no government mandates or subsidies, once such laws are in place we will comply with them. We will not place our company or our employees at a competitive disadvantage in the mixed-market economy in which we compete.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kochs’ entrance into the debate is unlikely to swing the vote toward Coburn on Tuesday, but threatens to reshape the long-term debate. The Koch brothers are among the biggest backers of the Republican Party and conservative groups.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Koch Industries political action committee has been one of the biggest contributors to GOP lawmakers and candidates. From 2009 to 2010 the Koch PAC contributed over $1 million to Republicans.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Koch PAC has already turned on the campaign money spigot for 2012. According to campaign finance records, it gave $299,000 to GOP lawmakers, candidates and party organizations through the end of April. That total far surpasses the PAC’s giving in January through April 2009, the most recent election off-year, and comes close to the more than $300,000 the PAC gave to GOP lawmakers, candidates and party committees over the same time period in 2010.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Koch brothers’ importance has only increased in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, which allows the them to use their private company’s money to secretly fund attack ads or prop up national organizations. They have given millions to conservative groups including policy think tanks, the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and the Mercatus Center, Tea Party activist groups and Americans for Prosperity.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kochs have already promised to raise $88 million for conservative action around the 2012 election.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ THE FULL KOCH LETTER TO COBURN:</font></strong></p></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">W</font><a href="https://www.fuelfreedom.org/koch-brothers-buying-ethanol-plants/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Why are the Koch brothers buying up ethanol plants?" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">hy are the Koch brothers buying up ethanol plants?</font></a></b></p><header class="entry-content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21.45px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="post-meta-infos" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; position: relative; top: -8px; display: block;"><time class="date-container minor-meta updated" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2015-02-04T16:33:26+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 4, 2015</font></time></span></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Flint Hills Resources, a biofuels company owned by the corporation controlled by brothers Charles and David Koch, has purchased its seventh ethanol plant.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week Flint Hills completed its acquisition of the plant near Camilla, Ga., from Southwest Georgia Ethanol. According to Flint Hills’ <a href="http://www.kochind.com/files/013015FHRAcquiresGeorgiaEthanolPlant.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">press release</a>, the plant produces about 120 million gallons of ethanol a year and employs about 60 people.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the <a href="http://www.kansas.com/news/business/agriculture/article8951726.html#storylink=cpy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Wichita Eagle</a> notes, Flint Hills is now one of the largest ethanol producers in the country. Its biofuels business …</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(45, 92, 136); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">… has a combined annual capacity of 820 million gallons of ethanol, a biodiesel plant and investments in biofuels technology and feedstock development.</font></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Considering that the entire ethanol industry produced 13.3 billions of fuel in 2013, Flint Hills now controls 6.2 percent of the U.S. market. Pretty substantial for an enterprise owned by Koch Industries, which made the bulk of its vast fortune on oil.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kochs are hardly greenies. According to a <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924?page=6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Rolling Stone</a> story from last September:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(45, 92, 136); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks in part to its 2005 purchase of paper-mill giant Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries dumps more pollutants into the nation’s waterways than General Electric and International Paper combined. The company ranks 13th in the nation for toxic air pollution. Koch’s climate pollution, meanwhile, outpaces oil giants including Valero, Chevron and Shell. Across its businesses, Koch generates 24 million metric tons of greenhouse gases a year.</font></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2011 story by the <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/04/06/3936/kochs-web-influence" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Center for Public Integrity</a> contends that while oil is the “core of the Koch business empire,” its influence extends much further.</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(45, 92, 136); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch companies trade carbon emission credits in Europe and derivatives in the U.S. They make jet fuel in Alaska from North Slope oil, and gasoline in Minnesota from the oil sands of Canada. They raise cattle in Montana and manufacture spandex in China, ethanol in Iowa, fertilizer in Trinidad, nylon in Holland, napkins in France and toilet paper in Wisconsin.</font></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since federal guidelines call for a certain amount of ethanol to be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply, investing in ethanol might be a simple hedge, the story says.</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(45, 92, 136); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; 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