EPA proposes lowering required amount of ethanol in gas

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it was the major growers like Con Agra and Archer Daniels that pushed for corn ethanol. Go look at how much they lobbied congress and tried to keep other sources for ethanol from being approved. Your response omits a big point, and that is that corn grown for ethanol is displacing food grade corn acreage, because of government subsidies.. Growers make less money from human food grade corn.


Beets, sugar cane, and hemp are better sources, but the real point is that ethanol lowers mpg in cars not tuned for it. I can get straight gas for my 90's Volvo and it gets better gas mileage, that offsets the drop when it uses 10%. Worse with 15%.. If we all had new cars that were tuned for 15% it would be different, but that is not reality, and won't be.