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Originally Posted by payne171
I would rather feed people with corn rather than put it in our gas tanks. With that said, I don't see why we still offer ANY form of farm subsidies while we are artificially inflating the cost of grains.
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What about all the other nonfood uses of corn? Most floor waxes are made from corn... wallpaper paste is made from corn, chalk and crayons and various building materials like plasterboard and redi-mix, charcoal briquettes, cardboard and recycled paper, bedding and textile insulation, cat litter... are those OK?
Keep in mind that farmers, distributors and retailers (of all foods) are big fuel users too, and any money they save on their bottom line (by using biofuels) keeps their operating cost - and our retail price - lower too.
I strongly feel that ethanol is not having, and never has had a negative impact on our food supply. Its strength as a candidate for petroleum replacement is that it pumps/distributes with the same infrastructure as gasoline, requires no new consumer education, and will operate in nearly all of the existing equipment in the real world today.
I genuinely have no idea what people are going on about with potential E15 problems in their cars... (other than the expected difference in BTU's per qty) seriously they have to be making things up just to talk.
