[Truth29]

So the subside would come off, but the requirement to use ethanol gas blends would continue. Would this increase the price of gas at the retail level?

[ngat]

It’s bound to. You reduce the supply of liquid fuels by 10%, how could the price not go up?

[Spktyr]

It does, however, allow more efficient methods of producing ethanol that does not require corn farming lands be used - such as cellulosic ethanol, which is basically produced from a weed-like plant that’s useless for anything else and can basically be grown in otherwise useless swamp.

Other methods could not compete with corn ethanol as long as corn had a subsidy.

[okie01]

So the subside would come off, but the requirement to use ethanol gas blends would continue. Would this increase the price of gas at the retail level?

Ethanol remains mandated. But, without the subsidy, it will be more expensive.

Ergo, the price of fuel at the pump will go up.

The consumer is gonna pay -- instead of the taxpayer.

[NVDave]

Yes, by about five to seven cents per gallon.

[stickywillie]

without the subsidies, it makes no sense to make ethanol. what a tremendous boondoggle this has been, and the farmers are going to lose their shirts this year