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We could also cut the mandates for ethanol produced from corn- roughly 40% of corn grown goes into making it.
by zdragnar 5y ago
We could also cut the mandates for ethanol produced from corn- roughly 40% of corn grown goes into making it.
- throwawayboise 5y agoA lot of corn also goes to animal feed.
- Scoundreller 5y agoWhen I worked out the numbers, it was about 75% of US corn production going to ethanol and animal feed. A lot of the other 25% is probably corn syrup. Burning natural gas to make fertilizer to grow corn (a 2% efficient solar panel) to eventually blend with gasoline is uhhhhh, dumb.
- djrogers 5y agoThe article, and the problems it references, aren't really expected to be a US thing - it's developing nations, and places where food is already harder to come by...