The New York Times published an editorial yesterday on what it called the “discouraging” economics of American ethanol industry. It cited the strong government biofuel mandates, with the E10 mandate proposed for the EU and a goal of E15 for China, but linked the “distortions in agricultural production” to biofuels and called them “startling”.
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