Corn used as an ethanol feedstock is also used as animal feed.
The real problem with the subsidies is that the installed capital base to process that much corn into ethanol is a form of economic heroin. There are whole communities built around it including the investment into careers built around that body of technical knowledge. There really would be withdrawal pains.
Corn used as an ethanol feedstock is also used as animal feed.
Knew that, but that does not a small degree of damage too. We actually need those animals improving the range. Much of what you see in the way of the government shutdown of ranching is to prop up the ethanol game. There really is a problem caused by a lack of animal impact on the range and the recycling of intestinal flora back into soil. The West has taken a terrible hit for this ethanol BS.