We turned away ethanol, not sugar. I don't get what you are saying. The ethanol was already made at 55 cents per gallon. The price is higher today, but so is everything else. They still run their cars on ethanol that is 1/2 the price of gas, right now,... today. I would imagine the price is somewhere around $1- $1.50, which is still cheaper than the $2.20 at my pump in town. Sugar in the world market is double since the State of the Union message. It's still cheaper than corn however for ethanol purposes.
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We turned away ethanol, not sugar. I don't get what you are saying. The ethanol was already made at 55 cents per gallon. The price is higher today, but so is everything else. They still run their cars on ethanol that is 1/2 the price of gas, right now,... today. I would imagine the price is somewhere around $1- $1.50, which is still cheaper than the $2.20 at my pump in town. Sugar in the world market is double since the State of the Union message. It's still cheaper than corn however for ethanol purposes."
I was drawing an analogy between protective trade policies with respect to corn vs. sugar and ethanol and those with respect to corn vs. sugar and soda.