“So you’re in favor of mandated ethanol consumption; Why not remove the government mandates and let the free market decide what farmers produce?”
It is my understanding that the “ethanol mandate” is a clean air requirement for fuels. The previously required substance does bad things to ground water if gasoline leaks into the earth.
[It is my understanding that the “ethanol mandate” is a clean air requirement for fuels.]
Yes, that is the primary rationalization.
Environmentalism has always been a favorite mechanism by which the Communists/Corporatists have manipulated the public.
Nobody wants to see a warm puppy get squished. Save the puppy! But what's going on, out of sight, while your attention is on the puppy.....?