Then and now

Ethanol blunder should make us wary of new EPA ruling | Joel Belz

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If you think the Environmental Protection Agency knew what it was doing with its sweeping mid-April announcement about greenhouse gases, it might be good to go back and get yourself a refresher course on the EPA and ethanol.

It wasn't that long ago, you see, that the EPA was also very sure that ethanol was exactly what the world needed. It was on July 1, 1994, that The Washington Post reported, a little triumphantly: "The Clinton administration yesterday announced that nearly one-third of gasoline sold in the most polluted U.S. cities must contain additives, such as grain alcohol, that are derived from corn or other renewable sources.

"The policy, announced by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol M. Browner, becomes effective in January 1995. Amendments to the Clean Air Act require that, by that date, gasoline sold in the nation's nine smoggiest cities must contain at least 2 percent oxygen by weight to promote cleaner burning.

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