date:Aug 03, 2012
In his opinion piece which ran in the Wall Street Journal, Pope called for cuts to the federal ethanol mandate.
The RFS has diverted so much corn as a questionable substitute for gasoline that in the face of this drought-depleted harvest, major food-producing companies such as Smithfield are being forced to seek alternative markets for grain to meet the demands of their livestock and at more affordable prices, Pope wrote. Ironically, if the ethanol mandate did not exist, even this year's droug