What Ethanol Does And Doesn't Do (PDF)

gotsmart wrote:
Just stop the Ethanol subsidy to the corn farmers. The subsidy makes it a no-brainer for farmers to grow corn for ethanol. Path of least resistance. Easy income. If the farmers can't make a profit on a crop then they'll switch to a different crop. This would throw the ethanol fuel industry into a tailspin as the production costs would increase due to insufficient domestic supply of raw materials.

There was never a subsidy for Ethanol to the farmers, there was one to the ethanol plants but that expired a while back.

There is still farm subsidies but they cover all farm crops not just corn and come into play when the prices are low.

Denny