The Ethanol Trap: Why Policies to Promote Ethanol as Fuel Need Rethinking

Douglas Auld

C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, 2008, issue 268

Abstract: Government support for ethanol production is expensive for governments and costly for consumers.

Keywords: economic growth and innovation; ethanol fuel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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