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The government aims to boost ethanol without evidence that it saves money or helps the environment

  • Written by André Boehman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, W.E. Lay Automotive Laboratory, University of Michigan
The government aims to boost ethanol without evidence that it saves money or helps the environmentA fan of fuel blends that contain as much as 85 percent ethanol.AP Photo/Jim Mone

President Donald Trump has promised his supporters in Iowa that the federal government will take a step that may increase corn ethanol sales.

This plant-derived fuel, which comprises about 10 percent of the 143 billion gallons of gasoline Americans buy each year,...

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