Before people start talking about sugar cane ethanol, or how considerably better it is for the environment than maize ethanol, let me mention a single word:
DESERTIFICATION.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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No WAI!!!
CORN LOBBYISTS ARE LYING?!?!
Holy fuck... it's been too obvious, for too long
Biofuels are the least efficient conversion of solar energy imaginable, and only exist to subsidize farmers and the industry around them as a way to bypass international trade agreements that ban such subsidies.
I say this as a farmer. I benefit from this system on the price of oilseed, and I think it's a bullshit way to do things.