The Environmental Protection Agency is reducing next year’s
mandatory inclusion of ethanol in gasoline by three billion gallons – between
15 and 15.5 billion gallons compared with the previously-set mandate of 18.15
billion gallons.

Corn producers immediately complained about the lower
minimum.
Ever since the U.S. government declared a minimum for
ethanol to be blended into gasoline, the price of corn has been significantly
higher than before ethanol was distilled as a fuel.
Canadian law sets ethanol minimums as a percentage of
gasoline – five per cent under federal law and more in some provinces.