And it’s not good for cars.
Expand that to gasoline engines, if you please. Here in Florida, we had a lot of people go buy generators for Hurricane Irma and then fueled them from the 'regular' pump, ie ethanol added. Come next year's hurricane season, many of these generators will be even more expensive to service / replace.
It’s not even good for corn farmers. Subsidies hurt the recipients, too. Subsidies distort messages businesses need to make the right decisions and allows those who really aren’t good at what they’re doing to stay in business. Even now, farmers here in Iowa are experiencing lower prices for their corn because there are too many of them planting too much corn due to the ethanol market. I really, really dislike both Iowa’s senators, but particularly Ernst. I emailed her once and got the worst namby-pamby repsonse imaginable. She is a zero.