It has been explained to me that, aside from the havoc that is wrought in food prices, using corn to produce ethanol is inefficient. Corn being a starch, ethanol being made with alcohol, and alcohol being made from sugar, use of corn in ethanol requires an extra starch-to-sugar conversion step that would not vex ethanol production with the substitution of sugar beets or sugar cane.
It begs the question, who is driving use of corn in production of ethanol?
The question of who drives what agenda always begs the question of who stands to profit.
Who IS profiting from use of corn in production of ethanol? Not small farmers, that’s for certain. Not big public, that’s equally certain. Could it be, as ever, that the lion’s share goes to the fewest but fiercest mouths?
I will suggest that it is conspiracy in restraint of trade, that farmers cannot grow hemp on their own land, and that the continued outlaw of hemp is fiscal folly.
I will suggest that the diversion of a primary grain to ethanol, when there are practical alternatives for ethanol production and plenty of land on which to grow them, is a humanitarian travesty.
What, I ask, is the difference between a field of corn and a field of hemp, except who makes money? And who eats.
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