From my colleague Steve Landsburg’s Armchair Economist:
In the United States farmers are routinely paid to leave land uncultivated, whereas nobody would think of paying motel operators to leave rooms vacant.
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Ethanol subsidies have caused a lot of those set-aside acres to be cultivated. Why do we continue to put ethanol into gasoline?