BoycottCornEthanol.org

If you have the means, drive 🚗 past the ethanol gas pumps and find one with pure gasoline. It might be a little more expensive, but remember:

Your car won't go as many miles on an ethanol tank since ethanol provides less energy per gallon than pure gasoline.

You can find a pure gasoline pump near you on pure-gas.org.

Ethanol corn 🌽 production contributes to poor water quality in the good old USA 🇺🇸:

High nitrate levels in drinking water can lead to poor health outcomes, especially for infants and new mothers.
Excessive use of fertilizer and field-drainage tiles can lead to impaired lakes, rivers and streams. Who wants to swim, fish or canoe in a mess of green algae? Yuck.

America needs farmers, but it doesn't need ethanol:

Drill, baby, drill! The USA is pumping more oil 🛢 than ever before. We don't need ethanol to power our vehicles. And any clean-air benefits of ethanol are not clearly established science. Read more here and here.

(As a personal aside, we prefer driving battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). No more trips to the gas station! No more oil changes! Plus, they're fun to drive. 🚘⚡)

Don't blame the farmers!

Many family farmers are trapped in an economic system that leads to bad environmental outcomes. Soul-less multinational farm-chemical corporations 🧪 and predatory seed companies on the front end, and ethanol production on the back end. The farmers take on nearly all of the risk and the corporations get most of the profits.
We think that the best approach is to reduce ethanol demand and slowly phase it out so farmers can again produce actual food instead of fuel and restore the fragile rural environment. An ongoing study at Iowa State University provides a blueprint for farmers to reduce their dependency on corn and soybeans leading to less fertilizer and herbicide application and better environmental outcomes.

What else can you do?

Vote for legislators and elected officials that support ending ethanol subsidies. Call your current representatives and tell them you will not vote for them next term if they don't.
Financially support farmers that produce food locally in an environmentally friendly fashion. You can find them on the internet or at a farmer's market.
Support this little website. Tell your friends about it! Make your own BoycottCornEthanol.org t-shirts! (We have no capability or interest in selling swag.) Heck, if you've got some extra cash or rich friends, rent a billboard like the one at the top of this page!