Strange Bedfellows? Big Oil And Environmentalists Team Up Against Trump

The Trump Administration has been a big supporter of corn farmers and the ethanol industry, most recently by keeping a promise the President made a year ago to lift restrictions on E15 – a blend of 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline. It’s a big win for a heavily-subsidized industry (farmers, in general, are arguably the biggest beneficiaries of government handouts next to the poor, and corn farmers get a huge chunk of that), though it’s a bit worrisome that a Republican administration would be choosing winners and losers in the energy industry much like the Obama administration did before.-- More...