I’m not a proponent of subsidies, but what all the anti-ethanol people miss is that:
The corn being used is not human food, it’s animal feedstock.
Done right, the dried distiller’s grains (DDS) or wet distiller’s grains (WDS) are returned as livestock feed, minus the starches and sugars, providing a high-protein feedlot component.
There are symbiotic relationships with the distillers where corn and stover is processed, DDS and WDS are returned to feedlots, manure is recycled to generate methane to fire the plant and then spent manure is returned to cornfield or pastures.
pretty damn green closed-loop recycling if you ask me. Let it compete, the market will tell the tale. Don’t listen to just the city version.
You’re gonna confuse’m with the truth