I wrote this in another thread, but at this point it's probably deserving of a separate thread:
Bumping this.
Everyone has probably seen that "Mr. Slick and Dummy" commercial that's been making its rounds on the airwaves recently. Eager to learn more, I went to their website and found some statistics that run contrary to the study that Torie posted. For one, a World Bank study found that high fuel prices are the cause of higher food prices. Additionally, a study by the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University found that gasoline would have been an average of $1.09 higher in 2011 without ethanol. As of August 2013, wholesale ethanol prices were 41 cents less expensive than gasoline.
I'm not really taking a side here, but I'm curious to know what our RFS skeptics make of this. There's nothing I hate more than "professionally-conducted" studies that totally contradict each other.
And, yes, I know I'm taking the thread completely off subject now.
The contrarian study that Torie posted, by the way, can be found
here.
