While we are at it, let’s also get rid of the subsidy for HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) and quit penalizing the use of cane sugar.
You want to talk pollution, just watch a sugar cane field being burned sometime. The smoke is acrid, dark and stinks to high heaven. The black ash falls everywhere, staining roof shingles, canopies etc. It’s messy, stinky and dirty, hardly the overall method we’d want to have toward satisfying the sweet tooth of the nation or plant.
Personally, I’d rather have the corn syrup. Now ethanol, is another issue and except for the remark about fertilizers from corn, which I believe isn’t accurate, the author is correct on his assertions about this substance on engines.
The oil industry has been issuing warnings of their own over this past week against using this higher percentage of ethanol. But they will be ridiculed as being self-interested.