Jonathan Lewis

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• First Things First: Capping Corn-Based Biofuel Production

  When Congress dramatically expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2007, supporters of the revised RFS—which is supposed to push 36 billion gallons of biofuel into the US fuel market by 2022—touted the program as a solution to our overdependence on foreign oil, a cure for flagging rural economies, and a…

  Policy, Technology August 5, 2013

• Corn Ethanol: The Next New Coke?

  How do you get Americans to pay for something they don’t really want in the first place? Most of the time – as in the case of New Coke, Harley Davidson Perfume, and the U.S. Football League – the answer is simple: you can’t. But where the Edsel failed, corn…

  Policy May 7, 2012

• Subsidizing Conventional Biofuels: An Idea Whose Time is Over

  Finally, policies that prop up biofuels production are in the crosshairs, and not a moment too soon. Because over the last decade, the biofuels industry has grown accustomed to getting whatever it wants, with no questions asked. Those days, at long last, appear to be over. Last week, the U.S….

  Climate, Policy June 20, 2011