With oil prices well over $100 per barrel, policymakers are considering everything from new fuel efficiency standards to biomass in an effort to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption. High oil prices, global warming, and the vitality of the American farm have introduced words such as “ethanol,”...

The biofuel industry in the US has experienced rapid growth in recent years, in part fueled by government incentives, which has led several academics to conduct cost-benefit analyses on biofuels. In this paper, I focus in on the issue of changes in land and fertilizer use as a cost of increasing...

Ethanol is vital to achieving greater American energy independence. It is today's only viable and available fuel that can be substituted for gasoline. Unlike oil, ethanol is renewable-it will never run out. As science moves from making ethanol from corn to producing it from corn cobs and other...