This probably won't help, even if the US government were able to implement such a policy (spoiler: it isn't, unlike the French, which is competent at dirigisme)

This probably won't help, even if the US government were able to implement such a policy (spoiler: it isn't, unlike the French, which is competent at dirigisme). One thing that would help, and very quickly, is to end the boondoggle that is mandatory corn ethanol in gasoline. Turning food into low-quality fuel (to feed subsidies into Cargill and Archer Daniel Midland) makes food more expensive worldwide and hits the poorest, whether in Mexico or Egypt. A most immoral policy.