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If farmers find the subsidized "ethanol corn" to be more lucrative to grow (and why shouldn't they?), they will grow more ethanol corn, and less sweet corn.
This will necessarily create a shortage in sweet corn (and feed corn) and drive food prices up.
There's only so much farmland to go around.
Who's going to feel the bite of increased food prices the most?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
If you find it acceptable to fund the production of ethanol on the backs of the poor, so be it.
Personally, I think it's a sham.
What Richie should have said is that ethanol isn't made from sweet corn. Furthermore, there is no record of anyone going hungry anywhere because of ethanol. Yes, it has it's faults, but it's still cleaner-burning than petroleum-based fuels.
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