I don't care if you trust me or not. I'll do it backwards for you. If the US continues to borrow 40 cents of every dollar it uses for a useless ethanol subsidy it will go bankrupt. If you can produce motor fuel out of corn without a subsidy or protective tariffs, do it. You can't.
You can change the subject if you want, I can shift gears.
But let’s stick to one issue at a time. Corn is not a basic food crop.
Yes, you can eat corn flakes for breakfast. The box costs more than the corn itself. As a percentage of the US corn production though, it is infinetismal. Would you concede the fact that most of the corn grown has always been used as feed for livestock?
Note, that’s a question.
Agricultural subsidies is another issue. The short answer to my way of thinking, there are an awful lot of .gov subsidies that (should) probably get the axe (sorry, scalpel. Hm.) than the people who grow our food.
Subsidies, we can talk about those too. Can we agree that oil is subsidized as well? Further, corn (as well as other crops) are renewable! Oil, once burned, is gone.
Again, I am open to discussing facts. When I point out that corn is used as primarily livestock feed, somebody opines that Ethanol runs poorly in their F150.
Well, duh. It’s a gasoline engine. We can talk auto shop too, etc., but again, different subject.