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Old 08-09-2018, 06:03 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Basically if ethanol cannot match the price per BTU, or price per mile of range of petrol options, it's a waste. Corn displaces other crops that could be grown.
Even if there was no ethanol mandate, the fields out here would still be entirely corn and soybeans. We decided collectively several decades ago to incentivize the production of those two crops almost exclusively, in the form of subsidies.

Well, by "we" I mean "the government," which is ostensibly "us."
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