Adam Klestadt is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis studying
economics. He spent the summer of 2012 at the Environmental Defense
Fund working on issues and models related to energy and environmental
economics. He is pursuing a career in energy consulting or finance.
In this article, Adam Klestadt discusses the impracticality of corn-ethanol
as a legitimate fuel source. Combined with the effects of natural
occurrences such as drought, devoting corn to biofuel production causes
unnecessary increases in prices felt by every American, particularly
farmers themselves.
