Ethanol could not handle such a drastic increase. Ethanol runs hotter than gasoline, and some older cars can no longer run it.

Ethanol would also make corn and other biomass worth more, increasing demand too fast would cause industry farms to aggressivley grow in size. The family farm already has enough dangers in loosing thier buisness, but by pumping up the cost of corn, the money would attract some deviants to the industry. This would also make the lust (and cost) for land go up, taxes would go up as the farmers sought to extpand thier farms to fuel the new need. Plus food prices would go up.

Corn ethanol research is funded farmers are a powerful lobby, not because it makes sense to grow corn for energy.


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