Facets of the U.S. government's ethanol program include the following, except

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The U.S. government's ethanol program includes tariffs on imported ethanol, mandated use of ethanol in gasoline, and subsidies to ethanol producers or blenders, but there is no price-ceiling to reduce the price of corn needed to make ethanol. In fact, the demand for corn has been one of the driving forces behind the ethanol program, as corn is the primary feedstock for domestic ethanol production.