Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits?

Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits?

by Ken G. Glozer
Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits?

Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits?

by Ken G. Glozer

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Overview

The author documents the political history of federal corn ethanol policy, showing how it has evolved from 1977 through 2008. He then offers an in-depth, fact-based look at the major assertions made by the advocates of the policy, providing the results of an evaluation of the claims made by the architects of the Renewal Fuels Standard in 2005 during its consideration by Congress.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817949617
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Publication date: 04/01/2011
Series: HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series , #569
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ken G. Glozer is currently president of OMB Professionals, a Washington, D. C. based energy consulting firm. He was a senior executive service career professional with the White House Office of Management and Budget in the energy, environment, and agriculture area for twenty-six years.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Part I Political History 1

1 Introduction 3

2 Ethanol as a Transportation Fuel: How Federal Corn-Ethanol Policy Evolved 5

A Carter Administration, 1977 to 1981

B Reagan Administration, 1981 to 1989

C Bush I Administration, 1989 to 1993

D Clinton Administration, 1993 to 2001

E Bush II Administration, 2001 to 2009

Part II Evaluating Advocates' Policy Claims 71

3 Is U.S. Energy Security Strengthened? 73

4 Does the Environment Benefit? 89

5 Other Claims: Are Budget Costs Reduced? Is the Trade Balance Improved? Is Rural Employment Increased? 125

6 Who Pays for the Policy, and Who Benefits from It? 131

7 Conclusions 157

Part III Supporting Documents 161

A International Energy Agency, IEA Response System for Oil Supply Emergencies 163

B History of World Oil Market Petroleum-supply Interruptions 165

C State-by-State Ethanol Subsidies 171

Endnotes 197

About the Author 209

About the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy 211

Index 213

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