In the 1980's Congress set up production tax credits to help spur domestic energy creation. They established one for ethanol and for natural gas. While the nature gas industry has flourished ethanol lags behind. The blog redstate.com takes look and makes the case natural gas was always viable as an energy source while ethanol needs subsidies to survive.
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