Partners in Ethanol Crime
Corn-fuel mandate has been an invitation to mass fraud

Nic Houslip has spotted an online article from the Wall Street Journal the other day (25th April) which highlights some concerns over the wisdom and sustainability of the policy in the US of the heavy use of ethanol in motor fuel.







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An online Wall Street Journal article headed "Partners in Ethanol Crime" says the corn-fuel mandate has been an invitation to mass fraud. The article highlights some disturbing features of the ethanol production for motor fuel in the US.

"Ethanol is losing political steam on the left and right, but the fuel retains a powerful patron in the Environmental Protection Agency. On Wednesday the EPA retroactively reduced the 2013 gasoline-blending mandate for cellulosic ethanol to 810,185 gallons from six million. If that sounds like a big cut, 810,185 gallons is precisely every last drop the industry managed to produce. The 2014 mandate is nonetheless pegged at a preposterous 17 million gallons. An even better measure of the EPA's tie-up with the ethanol lobby is the protracted delay of rules meant to keep criminals out of the alternative fuels markets. Ethanol has always been a scam on taxpayers but the mandate has proved to be an invitation for mass fraud." See the WSJ article

The unintended consequence of attracting criminal activity is a real concern.
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