40% of our drought ravaged corn crop will go to making worthless ethanol fuels that have done nothing to reduce our dependency on oil, exist solely with government subsidies from seed to tank and have made a few farmers and ADM rich. It would cost us less to just write corn farmers a check.
Although no one has ever taken me up on it, I have links to several indepth studies over conducted over several years, and tens of thousands head of livestock from beef to poultry that shows that 40% number bandied about so freely is WAY high.
The study was conducted by several midwest university livestock professors who set about coveraging the real uses of the ‘ethanol corn’.
If you are interested in seeing actual scientific research as opposed to political research, let me know.
You’ll be the first.