The USDA has assigned $19 million in grants to projects in 26 states to promote E15.  Projects will include installation of blender pumps and storage tanks required to expand availability of E15 to consumers at filling stations.

To date, USDA has expended $221 million of the $500 made available under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.

The question arises as to the beneficiaries of this taxpayer support. Corn growers? Ethanol refiners? Motorists? The environment? Certainly not livestock and poultry producers who are obliged to compete with the biofuels industry, speculators and importing nations for available corn.