The EPA should ban E15

By Money Matters Editors

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent the E15 proposal – gasoline with 15% ethanol – back for more study.

Money Matters Editors argues E15 from should be abandoned outright. Here’s why:

Ethanol from corn is not achieving its environmental, energy or conservation goals.

First, the scientific community is divided as to whether corn-based ethanol results in less or more greenhouse gas emissions. Some studies have shown that when one considers the energy to grow corn, harvest it, load the trucks, and process it, corn-based ethanol emits more greenhouse gases than it, in theory, would save from not drilling for oil.