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> If the USA suddenly had a food crisis, the ethanol production could be stopped. Could it? 99% of corn grown (including that used for ethanol) isn’t the sweet

> If the USA suddenly had a food crisis, the ethanol production could be stopped. Could it? 99% of corn grown (including that used for ethanol) isn’t the sweet corn for eatin. Would take a while to switch and I’m guessing there isn’t much excess capacity for turning it all into corn syrup and such. COVID couldn’t even figure out how to redirect institutional toilet paper into consumer toilet paper. And that’s the same product! The real buffer for a “food crisis” (whatever that is) is the amount of crop fed to livestock and food exported, not ethanol.

gruez 4y ago
>COVID couldn’t even figure out how to redirect institutional toilet paper into consumer toilet paper. And that’s the same product! Did the TP "shortage" actually get bad enough that a non-negligible portion of the population had nothing to wipe their bums with? Regardless, starving is much more dire than having nothing to wipe with. If people were actually starving, I'm sure they would have no issues eating field corn intended for animal consumption.