HFCS has been much cheaper than sugar for decades, thanks to legislative protection of the US sugar industry.
Cane sugar is finally being added back to products, like soft drinks, usually as a marketing ploy.
Too late for the former workers of candy factories that have moved to Canada, or farmed out the manufacture to other countries.
Yes ...good info. Here in Texas we had a Dr Pepper bottling company in Dublin Texas that used cane sugar. We used to drive down there from the panhandle an buy a couple cases. Stuff was much better than the corn syrup.