The U.S. may be hitting its ethanol limit. So EPA wants to relax its biofuels goals.

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4. As gasoline usage drops due to better mileage, less ethanol will be needed for the 10% blend

The decrease in gasoline use is better than would be more use of ethanol.

A calorie of ethanol energy requires almost a calorie of fossil fuel to be used for tillage, fertilizer production, pesticides, cultivation, harvesting, transport of the grain, milling, fermentation, distillation, and transportation of the ethanol to the refineries.

Corn ethanol is a very poor source of energy, even aside from the environmental harm of putting more acres into industrial scale corn production.

I was in Western Michigan recently, and heard stories about large absentee landowners buying up vineyards and orchards and turning them into corn fields.