“Ethanol does NOT compete with food.”
If that is true, then what pray tell, would the alternative be for the corn that is turned into ethanol if not for food?
Or you saying it is just more corn being raised?
More corn is being raised, the distillers dried grain is more efficiently fed to animals than the whole corn was to begin with and, oh by the way, #2 yellow corn isn’t used for human food anyway.
“If that is true, then what pray tell, would the alternative be for the corn that is turned into ethanol if not for food?
Or you saying it is just more corn being raised?”
There are corn byproducts left over from the corn after the starch is turned into alcohol. They make very good animal feed.
I would be all for ethanol if it was not dependent on massive tax subsidies. That’s on top of the normal crop subsidies that are paid out to farmers.
Ag subsidies are destructive, and they misdirect capital and the shape of agriculture.
All ag subsidies should go; they should have gone away 50 years ago.
Ethanol is extracted without destroying the food value of the grain. This myth about competing with food is just a propaganda tool.