Ethanol Blend Hike May Require Half of U.S. Corn Crop

A proposed increase in ethanol use in gasoline would require planting as much as 111 million acres of corn and using almost half of the crop for the fuel by 2015, according to a study by the U.S. grocery industry. Boosting the amount of biofuels allowed to be blended in gasoline could make last year’s [...]