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Center for Energy Studies | Research Paper

Fundamentals of a Sustainable US Biofuels Policy

January 5, 2010 | Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ronald Soligo

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Kenneth B. Medlock III

James A. Baker. III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics | CES Senior Director

Ronald Soligo

Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar | Professor Emeritus of Economics

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Overview

A comprehensive research paper evaluating the government's multi-billion-dollar support of ethanol production to meet the goal of enhancing energy security in an environmentally sustainable fashion.

Study Authors

Pedro Alvarez
Joel G. Burken
James D. Coan
Marcelo E. Dias de Oliveira
Rosa Dominguez-Faus
Diego E. Gomez
Amy Myers Jaffe
Kenneth B. Medlock III
Susan E. Powers
Ronald Soligo
Lauren A. Smulcer

© 2010 Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
https://doi.org/10.25613/an8j-nk73
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