Everything you need to know about cellulosic ethanol mandates in one chart. Original mandate by Congress for 2013: one billion gallons. Total produced for 2013: 810,185 gallons. The notion that Congress can legislate into existence a market for a new product: silly.
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BTW, ethanol reduces the power & efficiency of your gas when you put it in your tank. The dirty little secret is that ethanol is not really an energy issue, but an agricultural issue, as far as getting rid of it & who will fight the hardest to keep the mandates/subsidies.
It was marketed as lowering emissions 10-15%, but they didn't tell you that it reduced mileage 25%, leaving you with a net 10-15% increase in emissions.
I'm sure a good president can just keep rewriting the law to accomodate harsh reality.
Like Obamacare? Not exactly a "good" president, but it is sort of the same.