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Fish Smith, J.

Shughart, William F., II

USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection Colleges 3-12-2013 Think Ethanol is Environmentally Friendly? Think Again USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business William F. Shughart II Utah State University J. Fish Smith Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news  Part of the Business Commons Recommended Citation USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business; Shughart, William F. II; and Fish Smith, J., "Think Ethanol is Environmentally Friendly? Think Again" (2013). Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection. 129. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/129 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Colleges at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@usu.edu. Think ethanol is environmentally friendly? Think again - 1Think ethanol is environmentally friendly? Think againHuntsman PostThink ethanol is environmentally friendly? Think againEditor's note: This opinion piece written by William F. Shughart II, the J. Fish Smith professor in public choicehas run in several newspapers across the country, including the Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee, and theAnchorage Daily News.Published Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013America's prairies are disappearing at the fastest rate since the 1930s' "Dust Bowl."Given the pace at which U.S. farmers are converting grasslands into cornfields for ethanol production, this should hardlybe surprising.Driven in large part by government biofuel mandates on oil refineries, U.S. farmers converted more than 1.3 million acresof grassland into corn and soybean fields between 2006 and 2011, according to a newly published study by scientists atSouth Dakota State University. In corn-belt states like Iowa and South Dakota, about 5 percent of pastureland is beingconverted into cropland every year.

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