Looking down the road YOU DON’T BURN YOUR FOOD! Let alone the ecological component of using fossil fuels to create the fertilisers to grow the feed stock to produce ethanol.
The only “nutrient” remove from corn by distillation is the starch. How much more corn starch do you think the average American should have in his diet?
“Looking down the road YOU DON’T BURN YOUR FOOD!”
FDR and Henry Wallace did...they killed the baby pigs and poisoned mountains of potatoes with potassium permanganate...all for the same reason...to support Big Ag prices.