E85 is a much dirtier fuel, that’s why most major US cities ban it’s use in the summer due to increased air pollution.
The greenies will not be pleased.

Biden is temporarily allowing E15 NOT E85. “To be clear, E15 is gasoline. It's 88-octane fuel that is refined with 85 percent unleaded gas and 15 percent ethanol. E15 has been available through retail distributors since 2012 and, like the more popular E85 (unleaded gas plus between 51 and 83 percent ethanol), it can be used in all flexible-fuel vehicles.” Sep 21, 2021 MOTOTREND

The gaskets used in many cars will not stand up to E15 fuels. Gonna cause EXPENSIVE repairs.

When, they started adding alcohol to gasoline it caused gaskets to fail. My car says E10.
My golf cart is E10. Gonna be some EXPENSIVE repairs.

I perhaps read too much, remember some and expect, no demand it makes sense.
Far as corn, I've read that 80% of the calories in America come from corn. It is not just the few ears we buy at the grocery, it is a major feed for livestock.

Other interesting facts about ethanol from Honda.

Ethanol is produced from corn, soybeans, sugar cane, or other organic material. It is blended with gasoline (10% ethanol, 90% gasoline) to produce E10.

Ethanol has 28% less energy density than gasoline, so it reduces fuel efficiency.

Ethanol is an excellent solvent, drying agent and cleanser. It will clean or dissolve some parts of, and deposits in, fuel storage and fuel delivery systems, including some fuel tank materials. The dissolved material can clog filters or pass through and leave deposits on fuel injectors, fuel pumps, fuel pressure regulators, carburetor jets, intake tracts, valves, and valve guides.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is in EVERYTHING!

You may want to direct your reply to the poster who provided E85 statistics in this thread about E15 fuel.

From the Nebraska Corn Board

Field corn is the classic big ears of yellow dented corn you see dried and harvested in the fall. In fact, it’s sometime called “dent corn” because of the distinctive dent that forms on the kernel as the corn dries.

Field corn has dozens of uses, but it is most commonly fed to animals or used to make renewable fuels like ethanol to power our cars and trucks. But only part of the kernel is used for ethanol (the starch), the rest of the kernel, including the protein and fat, are then used to make another popular animal feed known as distillers grains.

People don’t eat field corn directly from the field because it’s hard and certainly not sweet. Instead, field corn must go through a mill and be converted to food products and ingredients like corn syrup, corn flakes, yellow corn chips, corn starch or corn flour.

Ya, so what’s your point? If the land, efforts, and resources used to grow field corn was instead channeled onto growing sweet corn, also known as food corn, instead of growing field corn for ethanol, the gas we use would be more efficient and the world would have a much greater food supply. Farmers grow what they are incentivize to grow, not what is best for society. Stop incentivized farmers to grow corn that pollutes gas and doesn’t feed people.

Does it really make sense to spend "$100 million" on "biofuel infrastructure" when we could spend $0.00. if Biden would take the handcuffs off the oil and natural gas producers?

Thank you Elon Musk for the best automobile we have owned. Tesla. No gas.

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A stupid decision
 

Lower gas prices but higher food prices . And more pollution. Doesn't make any sense .

I think the nomenclature is wrong here