So, why should pure gas cost more than gas with ethanol added? Gas is cheaper to produce sans adding corn. Plus, maybe none of you are old enough to remember a couple things. When they started to add corn to the gas, that gas was more expensive because the ethanol had a cost. So now if it isn't added, why is gas more?
Also, there was a time we had leaded gas. Lead was an additive, thus an extra cost. When lead was outlawed in gas, guess what? Unleaded gas was more expensive? The question most of us asked at that time was why would gas be more without adding the lead, which had a cost?
The Overlords think we are stupid, and for the most part, they are right.