I hope Ethanol was not a Republican idea. It was stupid from the start.
it got Dem-RINO support IIRC
This boondoggle came from both sides of the aisle. The farmers were given massive subsidies for dumping any other crops to go grow corn. The lobbyists representing them threw a lot of money around to keep it going. Politicians, both repubs and dems, rode it hard as it was an easy way to claim they were supporting alternative fuels and being “green”.
But behind all this crap, anyone who did even a small amount of investigative work saw what a disaster this was.
Basically, the amount of fresh water used for growing enough corn for even a gallon of ethanol was a tremendous waste.