An excellent op-ed provides a reminder that bad goverment programs tend to stick around even after they’ve proven to be as bad or worse than the critics predicted. This unkillable program is ethanol:

Allowing a higher percentage of ethanol in gasoline will not make us less dependent on… foreign energy sources. It will not help the environment. It will not lower consumer prices. And it will result in the poor of the world having less to eat. Instead of raising federal mandates on ethanol, Congress and the Obama administration should end them entirely.

The case against it is clear, but I’m pessimistic that it matters.