Terry Scanlon of the Capital Research Center leads his latest email this way:

When you gas your car with 10% ethanol, you’re dragged into the Renewable Fuel Standard morass run by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). This environmentalist policy is so terrible, even the greens have turned against it. But as a government program, it’s immortal. Our latest “Green Watch” documents how this disaster funnels money from consumers to crony capitalists, reduces your car’s mileage, raises food prices for the world’s poor, and destroys rain forests and wetlands.

The study, The Renewable Fuel Standard, by Marlo Lewis, gives the shocking facts about how much harm is done by the RFS’s requirement of mixing a certain amount of ethanol into the nation’s gasoline supply. Well worth reading.

 

 

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