Why Are We Growing Corn to Fuel Our Cars? Three Reasons Why Ethanol Is a Bad Idea
26th April 2016
The problem is that ethanol’s benefits have been greatly exaggerated, leading to congressional regulations that required ever-increasing amounts of ethanol in our gasoline supply. The government requirement goes back to 2005, when gas prices were much higher and the U.S. was in the midst of the Iraq war. Ethanol was supposed to be a clean way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The growing mandate for ethanol has instead created an enormous, artificial demand that has had unintended consequences, many of them bad.