Do NOT claim words for me I have not wrote. This country could be energy independent if not for the policies of our government. But selected subsidies decided by politicians are not the way we will achieve energy independence. Look to Brazil. The main stream media wants to talk about their ethanol production. But it was their producing their petroleum resources that was the biggest source of their independence. We could do the same but choose not to do so.
lets be realistic about the numbers.
for a 50 cent/gal subsidy, on ethanol blended into gasoline,
something like 2 dollars is
‘avoided needing to be imported’.
(wholesale gasoline is at 2.25, or so.)
the 50 cents stays in the US, btw
(OK, some ethanol is imported, but not from
the middle east)