Resurrection of Ethanol Mandates
Imagine the federal government forced you to spend $180 to buy an 8-track tape player. Sounds absurd. What could be more useless in the 21st Century than an obsolete Disco-era music machine? But what...
View ArticleMTBE, Ethanol Mandates Aren't Needed
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for inviting me to participate in this hearing. I am director of economic policy at Reason Foundation, a public policy think tank promoting choice, competition, and a dynamic...
View ArticleA Federal Ethanol Mandate
Executive SummaryThe Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require that gasoline used in the United States has additives that oxygenate the fuel. The most common oxygenate was MTBE, which is being phased...
View ArticleEthanol Subsidies Cost Taxpayers $8 Billion This Year
Los Angeles (August 11, 2008) - Politicians are going crazy for ethanol, touting it as a cure-all that will reduce both pollution and our dependence on foreign oil. But a new Reason.tv video shows...
View ArticleNo Biofuels Bailout
Reason.com Clean Renewable Energy Bonds ("CREBs")Everyone wants a bailout. Last week, a coalition of mostly farm energy lobbyists sent a letter to the Congressional Democratic leadership begging for...
View ArticleSpring Madness on Global Warming
Usually, the unintended consequences of government policy appear in areas other than those that the policy is trying to address. So, for instance, government prohibited alcohol sales to cut booze...
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The Bioethanol Binge
Aberdeen, South Dakota—“I’ve always wanted to know, can you drink what you guys make?,” I asked, sitting in Jim Lane’s office at the Advanced Bioenergy ethanol plant in Aberdeen, South Dakota. After...
View ArticleLet Ethanol Subsidies Die
It’s a very rare occasion when a free marketeer like me agrees with the green fanatics over at Friends of the Earth, but they are right about one thing: It's time to let ethanol subsidies die. In 2004,...
View ArticleThe Future of American Energy Policy
Given the red-team/blue-team dynamic of American politics, it was probably inevitable that discussion of energy policy would degenerate into a debate between drillers and renewers—between those who...
View ArticleIndustry Sues EPA Over Biofuel Requirement
On Friday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) filed a petition with the D.C. Circuit to review EPA's cellulosic biofuel requirements.The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) requires...
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