The ethanol mandate is a dumb idea nobody will touch.

City Journal:  A Simple Policy to Reduce Food Prices

Using food to make fuel is such a stupid idea, politicians won’t even consider changing the rule.

EPA rules effectively require that automotive gasoline sold in the U.S. contain 10 percent ethanol…The amount of energy contained in a gallon of ethanol, it turns out, is only slightly higher than the fossil-fuel energy needed to grow and process the corn that produces that ethanol.

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