Congress Allows Corn Ethanol Subsidy to Expire

I'm surprised not a single one of you commented on this. Ethanol has been a topic of hot debate on here for years.

We have two E85 stations in Canada and they are both in the Greater Toronto Area. Thus, despite having a Flex-Fuel car it does me no good in Calgary. Never used it. We don't have E-15 either as there are no ethanol subsidies in Canada. I guess based on a pure subsidy-free environment there's not much demand.

yay! we have a lower tax(direct or inflation) burden and freer trade. WIN!!!!

congressional mandates are just that..... as coercive as taxes and just as immoral, therefore not a just law and should not be enforced

like E10 and E85 as choices available to the consumer. In my state, E10 is mandated, that is what I hate.

I think farmers and anyone who wants to pump ethanol into their truck, burn what they grow is kind of cool.

But E10 and not having a choice of pure gas is like double taxation. You are paying to subsidize ethanol production, paying to use extra fuel you would not normally use. Triple taxation actually, too. You're subsidizing a lot of corn growing before it even sees an ethanol plant too.

well... not anymore you aren't.

I like the idea of ethanol, but I hate that we've been forced to use just the corn version exclusive to all others. Corn is one of the worst ways to make ethanol, so hopefully now that the playing field is more level, the better, more efficient ways to produce it will come online.

we shouldn't be subsidizing corn or petroleum. its not like they are going to stop selling ethanol fuels.