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> while boosting support for biofuels, which consume the majority of the country’s cropland. Wow. I knew it was a lot but did not know it was the majority.
by julienchastang 1y ago
> while boosting support for biofuels, which consume the majority of the country’s cropland.
Wow. I knew it was a lot but did not know it was the majority.
- bluGill 1y agoyou can run numbers in many ways. a part of most crops goito renewable but there is other parts on the same crop used for food
- ethan_smith 1y agoThe article's claim is misleading - biofuels don't consume the majority of US cropland. Corn for ethanol uses ~38% of US corn production, but only about 7% of total US cropland is devoted to all biofuel crops combined according to USDA data.