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Soybeans and corn are two of the most widely planted crops in the United States and the main feedstocks used to make biofuels. www.shutterstock.com

Biofuels turn out to be a climate mistake – here’s why

John DeCicco, University of Michigan

A new study challenges the longstanding view that biofuels are carbon-neutral, and asserts that in the U.S. to date, they have done more harm to the climate than gasoline.
Before there was E10, in the 1970s there was ‘gasohol,’ another name for gasoline that had been blended with ethanol. eklektikos/flickr

Corn ethanol: the rise and fall of a political force

Tristan R. Brown, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Ted Cruz opposes subsidies for biofuels and still managed to win in ethanol-friendly Iowa. Is corn ethanol starting to lose its political clout?

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  1. Automotive industry
  2. Biofuels
  3. Corn ethanol
  4. E10
  5. Ethanol
  6. Oil
  7. Transportation
  8. Trump administration
  9. US energy policy

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