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The thing I like about ethanol as fuel is that it is driving up the price of high fructose corn syrup enough that many food manufacturers are switching to much
by carterschonwald 17y ago
The thing I like about ethanol as fuel is that it is driving up the price of high fructose corn syrup enough that many food manufacturers are switching to much tastier cane sugar.
fuel price is perhaps the best price externality affecting the tastiness of food in the past decade
- mblakele 17y agoWouldn't we get the same effect, more cheaply, by dropping tariffs on imported sugar?
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- TriinT 17y agoNot to mention that such a policy would greatly benefit the sugar-cane farmers in Central and South America too...
- likpok 17y agoOr probably also by cutting corn subsidies, but neither of those is likely to happen. Unfortunately, Iowa has quite some sway, so big corn is here to stay.
- carterschonwald 17y agoyes, but thats not going to happen, so this is the next best thing, ignoring the whole irrationality of "green" fuel