With gas prices crossing $4 a gallon, the EPA says cheaper, more ethanol-rich fuel will ease the pain. The math doesn't really add up—but the risks sure do.
This. People in relative comfort have no idea what starvation looks like, but are willing to sell out their own country because of some images of people on the middle of a ‘food shortage’.
Much of our corn fields already go to fueling vehicles even the corn that isn’t is more than likely feed corn for livestock. It’s not great for human consumption.
It doesn’t. Likely why Americans are so fat. Everything in US food has corn or is fed corn. 98.5% of corn is used for cheap sugars, oils, and precursor for plastics.
I think it has some value but not much, not unless it’s been through nixtamalization which frees up vitamins and other nutrients. Masa harina is cornflour that’s been through that process. Masa Harina is also used in making tamales.
So instead of using the crop fields to feed people, we’re gonna grow corn for fuel for cars instead.
Cars are literally more important than feeding people.
Iirc something like a third of food produced in the US ends up in garbage, so it doesn’t seem like yall have shortages there.
This. People in relative comfort have no idea what starvation looks like, but are willing to sell out their own country because of some images of people on the middle of a ‘food shortage’.
Dumb take, less than 1.5% of corn grown in USA is edible.
So even less, then.
Already doing that
Much of our corn fields already go to fueling vehicles even the corn that isn’t is more than likely feed corn for livestock. It’s not great for human consumption.
I thought I’d heard that corn doesnt even have any nutritional value.
It doesn’t. Likely why Americans are so fat. Everything in US food has corn or is fed corn. 98.5% of corn is used for cheap sugars, oils, and precursor for plastics.
It kinda has to in order to make ethanol.
You only need sugar to make ethanol, which is not nutritional.
Sugar is absolutely a source of nutrition. It’s not a good source, but it’s definitely one.
You can make ethanol dirt cheap its the carb source for fermentation.
I wound up Googling it and you’re correct that it is a source of calories, carbs, protein, and fat surprisingly.
Surprisingly? Corn is how you fatten up farm animals and humans, that’s been known hundreds of years. That’s what “corn fed” refers to.
And you get fatter eating animals fed corn.
Food that has been eaten for thousands of years having things that our bodies need in it is surprising?
I think it has some value but not much, not unless it’s been through nixtamalization which frees up vitamins and other nutrients. Masa harina is cornflour that’s been through that process. Masa Harina is also used in making tamales.
It depends on how you’re using the word “nutrient”. It isn’t great by any means but it has carbs and carbs are a macronutrient.
It will bring down prices. Got a few weeks. Until the balance of costs of ethanol kicks in. Just in time to make money off of the grift.