Planet Gore on National Review Online
When you get right down to it, the ethanol mandate is just a Soviet-style production quota system in green garb. Even the green tint is rubbing off as experts document how corn ethanol produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the gasoline it displaces, and how Europe’s biofuel directive is bankrolling rainforest destruction and species loss in Indonesia and Malaysia. Even Time magazine, a voice of global warming alarmism, now calls the U.S. and EU biofuel programs a “clean energy scam.”
If Soviet five-year plans were the height of economic folly, then what are we to make of the 2007 ethanol mandate, which established a 15-year plan, setting production quota from 2008 through 2022? Just because the mandate does not deliberately aim to starve hungry people, as Soviet policy sometimes did, does not mean conservatives should defend it or trivialize the hardship it is creating.
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