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What choice do they have? The US subsidizes corn massively, and dumps it tariff-free into Mexico. This is like micro-brews, but corn.
by pessimizer 3y ago
What choice do they have? The US subsidizes corn massively, and dumps it tariff-free into Mexico. This is like micro-brews, but corn.
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- ClumsyPilot 3y agoUS also pushes biofuel from Corn, which causes more CO2 than simply burning oil: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe point of ethanol in gasoline is to replace roughly 15% of the oil we consume with not-oil that we make here (because 30% of our entire imports were saudi oil for decades) for energy independence, to have another way to subsidize people in Iowa, and to replace MTBE as an octane booster because it kept leaching out of ground storage tanks and poisoning innocent people. Ethanol pisses a lot of people off for various reasons but it's an extremely safe octane booster compared to our previous substances, keeps american energy less dependent on a war mongering desert country, and is yet another way to funnel tax dollars to a few big corn conglomerates. Even if the only thing ethanol in gasoline did was increase octane, it's such a big improvement in safety compared to MTBE that it would still be a success. If you think early 2000s america gave a fuck about carbon emissions when the current administration was literally an oil baron, IDK what to tell you.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoWell thats fine, but i take issue with false marketing
- miguelazo 3y agoThe US massively subsidizes corn, AND as part of NAFTA got President Salinas to legalize privatization of the ejidos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido