if hacks from the oil industry, including enemy countries that sell us oil, can print lies for public consumption, how can there ever be a free market based on facts? There is no free market since all of capitalism is crony capitalism in order to survive. You are talking of the ideal, which doesn’t exist. ETOH is simply one good piece of the portable energy pie and it is readily renewable. It represents captured sunlight and CO2.
If it is a good option, why is its use mandated? Why would the market not choose to use it on its own worth?