Ethanol truths or falsehoods?

By Seth Slabaugh, Star Press

seths@muncie.gannett.com

False, according to Wally Tyner, an agricultural economist at Purdue University.

An analysis published in April by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University suggests the growth in ethanol production has caused retail gasoline prices in the Midwest to be 40 cents a gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.