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Originally Posted by gpsman1
It is very false and mis-leading to say food is being turned into fuel.
It is not.
The kind of corn that is used for ethanol does not resemble food corn.
It is a hybrid, bio-engineered energy crop. It only resembles food corn in a generalized sense. Food corn ( aka sweet corn, table corn, ) does not grow well on the acreages used, thus you could not substitute sweet corn next year, even if you wanted to.
They are turning plant matter into energy, some of the energy comes from photosythesis, and is changing sunlight into liquid energy you can put into your fuel tank. The plant matter is a "solar battery". Literally, it is.
I will gladly deliver, at my expense, 1 truck load of ethanol corn to anyone who desires it. Free of charge. You must only sign a paper that you will eat the corn.
Please PM me your address. Not everyone at once please.
I'm only going to be able to rent one truck.
First come, first served.
-John
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Ah, John - John. . . What a guy! And how you seek to destroy a reasonable discussion with an unreasonable argument.
The corn used for ethanol is the corn used to feed cattle, or even to make distilled spirits. Now I don't care much about drinking the stuff, but much of that corn goes to milk production and feed lots across the west.
While the corn may be unpalatable to us, it may work out as corn meal, tho I don't know much about it. But I'm betting that historically, maize would not be today's corn-on-the cob.
And by the way perhaps we could drop all those plastic bottles floating out in the ocean (80% - whatever that would be quantitatively) in your front yard.