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Reitze on Biofuels

By Lawrence Solum

Arnold W. Reitze Jr. (University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law) has posted Biofuels ? Snake Oil for the Twenty-First Century (Oregon Law Review, Vol. 87, p. 1183, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Biofuels made from corn or soy beans are heavily subsidized by Federal and state governments based on claims that their use improves environmental quality and reduces the U.S. dependency on foreign oil supplies. This article refutes these claims and documents how the farm lobby aided by money from ethanol producers results in numerous subsidies that cost the American taxpayer more than $6 billion a year with costs projected to triple by 2022.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).