The Biden administration is poised to implement rules on so-called corn-based sustainable aviation fuel. The effect of such rules will hike food prices that, in turn, will wreak havoc on the natural environment, including the food supply. According to The New York Times, the regulations will enable corn-based or ethanol fuels to qualify for tax credits made available by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Corn is used not just to make ethanol but is used to sweeten certain fuels and meal for cattle, hence the prices of food increase resulting from ethanol production. Fuel costs also go up due to the gasoline providers having to specially equip their gas pumps to accommodate the new fuel while ethanol can negatively affect car engines.

A study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Wildlife Foundation published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states that ethanol and other biofuels were worse for the environment. Researchers concluded that producing biofuels, like ethanol, creates more carbon emissions than petroleum production.

If the new SAF rules are enacted (which seems likely) then more production will have to go into making it which, as The Times notes, means higher amounts of farmland and massive amounts of water will have to be needed to produce corn.

The fact that the new rules for these jet fuel subsidies would create more problems than they intend to solve may be the reason Biden is doing it to begin with. Hike food and fuel prices makes everyone’s lives more miserable while only the groups tied to the Biden regime benefit.