Ethanol is an alcohol that is derived from corn and federal laws require that 15 billion gallons of ethanol be added to gasoline every year. The main problem with this is that we are using our valuable arable land to grow corn for our cars, driving up the price of corn. When corn prices rise, it affects everything that is produced by corn, including feed for cattle and chickens. This creates a ripple effect and increases the cost, and then the price, of meat and all the dairy products associated with it like milk, cheese, etc.  Instead of taking the land and growing food for people who actually need it, we are filling up our cars with ethanol.

In addition, the transportation of ethanol requires trucks to run the fuel around the country, as ethanol cannot be piped through conventional fuel lines. This means we are wasting even more oil and polluting the atmosphere even more just to transport the fuel we will burn later.

Besides for the economic and environmental reasons listed above, ethanol destroys older engines in cars and requires special technology built into new cars that is expensive. The automobile has been perfected for over 120 years to run on gasoline, that means the gas tank, the fuel injections system, the engine, etc has evolved to run on gasoline. Ethanol is an alcohol that has chemical properties that destroy components in a car that gasoline does not. Finally, mixing ethanol with gasoline actually lowers the BTU's (British Thermal Units) in a given amount of volume, translating into lower fuel economy and worse emissions. It takes more ethanol-gas mixture to travel the same distance using pure gasoline. 

Please stop the government from forcing us to put corn in our cars! The government should not mandate a 10% requirement for all gasoline and it definitely should not move to increase that to 15%. In addition, the government should stop giving taxpayers money to corn farms to produce this ethanol. It is not helping the general public, it is only helping the corn growers. Put the food to a better use!