States are requiring that producers of gasoline include “biofuels” in their product mix—fuels like ethanol, made from corn or other food crops. A new report from North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation says those rules are costing consumers by raising food prices. And it calls out the states that demand the most biofuels (one of them…
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It’s Hard to Keep Special Interests Happy, But the Government Keeps Trying
Chances are, you haven’t heard of RFS, RINs, eRINs, RVOs, or maybe even RNG. I hadn’t. But if you are part of the agricultural and waste-industry interests that promote “biofuels,” you know all about them. They are the means by which fuel generated by corn, wood, waste from a landfill, or other “natural” biomass gets…