A policy that entails draining America’s limited oil supplies – I call it “drain America first” – will leave the US even more dependent on foreign oil. The US imposes a tariff of more than 50 cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol from Brazil, but subsidizes inefficient corn-based American ethanol heavily – indeed , it requires more than a gallon of gasoline to fertilize, harvest, transport, process, and distill corn to yield one gallon of ethanol.
导致美国有限石油资源枯竭的政策¾我把它称为“先耗光美国”的政策¾会导致美国更加依赖国外石油进口。美国对从巴西进口的蔗糖乙醇每加仑征收50美分的关税，却为国内出产的相对低效的玉米乙醇提供补贴。事实上，每生产一加仑玉米乙醇都将需要超过一加仑的汽油用于玉米的施肥、收获、运输、加工和提纯过程。