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Originally Posted by Duffman
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Originally Posted by rocket
ethanol is bad for everyone, it decreased the amount of food availible for eating (and exporting to poor nations as aid), increases the cost of food
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Have you seriously looked at food subsidies?
Are you familiar with the term dumping before you say high food prices is bad for the third world? |
a couple other things to note, 1:the corn that is used for ethanol production is animal feed grain corn, I'm sure that you dont eat that, and then the byproduct from from producing ethanol is used to feed animals, not much of a loss there, getting two uses from one item. 2: beer companies are now putting theire waste product into ethanol production
anyhow, today the price for e85 is 2.89 USD while regular is 3.85 USD sounds like a fair traidoff even if you lose a couple mpg.