Since this quantity is required by the government to be blended with gasoline, regardless of the price of ethanol, corn, or gasoline, the demand that it creates for corn is not at all responsive to the price of corn. In economic terms, such demand is highly “inelastic”: the mandate must be met at any price.
由于这一产量是由政府下达作汽油勾兑使用，并不以乙醇，玉米和汽油价格为转移，由此产生的对玉米的需求也对玉米价格不甚敏感。用经济学来解释的话，这一需求是高度“非弹性的”：无论价格如何，该政策都必须接受。