True. Ethanol should have to compete on the free market. Sink or swim. IMO, corn is for food, not energy.
I think that’s the way most of us feel about these things. If they can make a successful go of it without taxpayer support, more power to em.
ethanol can now be made from corn cobs.
it took a while.
but in the fight
against OPEC, al-Queda and al-Exxon,
you have to start somewhere.
I believe the subsidy has expired.
IMO, corn is for food, not energy.
I doubt you eat hybrid feed-corn. Now they feed the spent mash to livestock, and claim the processed meal is more nutritious than the cracked corn.
So now they get two products, alcohol and cattle feed.
BTTT