stackyFACTSPouring taxpayer funds into agriculture sometimes results in literal oceans of unwanted alcohol. EU subsidies guaranteed minimum prices for grapes, encouraging massive over-planting. This created wine lakes so vast that millions of liters had to be distilled into industrial alcohol just to get rid of the fermenting fiscal disaster.
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