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by M Dowling
The Biden administration on Friday set new requirements that increase the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply from 10% to 15%. It will lead to higher costs, it’s mostly undoable, and it hurts the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would set the 2022 levels for corn-based ethanol blended into gasoline at 15 billion gallons, according to the AP.
The fuel consumes more than 40% of the nation’s corn supply, and ethanol and other biofuel production plants offer jobs in rural areas that have seen steady population declines over the decades…
