EPA Perpetuates Ethanol Scam in New Regulations

Perhaps the ethanol subsidies would constitute wiser policy if the claims of ethanol advocates (including the farmers who benefit from the government payout) were anywhere near the truth. Aside from the dubious benefit of catering domestic policy to a climate panic that more thorough scientific inquiry has discredited, ethanol production itself actually swells carbon emissions. Although it burns cleaner than straight gasoline, ethanol is produced using energy from electric plants that still burn fossil fuels (along with the modes of transportation and harvest), more than offsetting its environmental benefits. Additionally, the whole biofuel project is an expensive experiment that distracts from more viable clean power alternatives: hydro, solar, and that greatly maligned boogeyman, nuclear energy. That the ethanol lobby has succeeded in pushing its agenda at taxpayer cost is shameful. That the EPA is aiding and abetting in this process while ignoring superior solutions is par for the course. Until the appointees who make these decisions are replaced, the American public should put their hope for serious energy and environmental reform in the candidates they elect this November...more