I grow weary of debunking that canard.
When corn is used to make ethanol, the spent grain is used as animal feed. The pub I frequent SELLS their spent grain to local farms, whether it’s malted barley or corn (they also distill alcohol).
They are NOT burning food. Stop perpetuating a bald faced lie.
The making of ethanol is mostly wasteful because of the “fossil” FUEL used for the process.
“They are NOT burning food.”
Perhaps not. But instead of planting soy beans or other crops they are planting corn for ethanol. So they could have grown food, instead they are growing stuff to burn. Corn also requires a LOT of water - so taking the water that could have been used to grow food.
I’m guessing though that the ethanol helps the farmers out quite a bit in the market.
My old man would make the comment that the farmers always seemed to get the bad breaks. When the weather is bad, the crops are poor but the market is good. (10 bushels x $10 = $100). But when the crops are good, the market is poor. (100 bushels x $1 = $100).
I’m guessing the ethanol, being a mandated thing for fuel, helps with some of the pricing.
The real LIE is the one you're telling. When you're using land to grow a crop that's not edible to humans and used for ethanol production, you ARE in fact otherwise "burning food."
Land used to produce a crop that's not edible is a complete waste of land and ethanol takes more energy to produce than it creates. It is the most ineffective "fuel" at the pump. Anyone who understands how it's made knows that.