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Some critics see the ethanol program as returning a favor.
The ethanol program has bipartisan backing among corn state officials.
Facts given about the feasibility of an ethanol program.
Mr. Becker argued that the ethanol program was costly for consumers.
The success of Brazil's ethanol program has also helped to dispel certain myths.
In the same period, Brazil has developed the world's most advanced ethanol program, based on sugar cane, while the U.S. corn ethanol program is essentially a wasteful folly of dubious carbon offset merits.
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In some cases, ethanol programs have backfired.
Many economists, consumer advocates, environmental experts and tax groups have been critical of corn ethanol programs as a boondoggle that benefits agribusiness conglomerates more than small farmers.
Whether ethanol programs will be easy or difficult to undo politically remains an open question, but I am pessimistic.
Methanol was preferred in the seventies and eighties but the interest for methanol ended and instead ethanol programs were initialized.
A new study by California researchers challenges claims that substituting ethanol for gasoline consumes more energy than it creates -- an argument that has dogged ethanol programs and their supporters for more than a decade.
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