[Mr. Lucky]

Yes, but corn which is used for ethanol production is also used for livestock feed and, at least by ruminants, is used more efficiently. It's not either or.

My point is that the marketplace, not the government, should dictate how much corn is produced in the US, how the corn is produced and how it is used. While ethanol mandates are wrong, so would be ethanol prohibitions.

[thackney]

We agree. We should both write our representative and senators asking the mandates and subsidies be dropped.

[redgolum]

DDG is actually much better to feed cattle than regular corn. That is the real use for ethanol production, much better cattle feed.

It is also what drives long term viability of the ethanol plants.