Ethanol Is Just Comically Inefficient Solar Energy. It’s Time to Bring the Real Thing to the U.S. Heartland

Ethanol Is Just Comically Inefficient Solar Energy. It’s Time to Bring the Real Thing to the U.S. Heartland

For all the backbiting and vitriol, the main candidates in the recent Iowa GOP presidential caucus agreed on a lot of issues, from immigration crackdowns (wonderful) to federal incentives for electric cars (evil). But no topic brought them into more violent consensus than the sanctity of federal support for corn-based ethanol. The heart of the nation’s corn belt, Iowa is the Saudi Arabia of that industry; and Donald Trump and his longshot rivals…