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[quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="Convicted One"] They also present that one person can be fed for one year on the amount of corn required to make sufficient motorfuel to fill up the fuel tank of one SUV.[/quote]That might actually be relevant, if humans ate the field corn that is used for ethanol production.[(-D][/quote]Don't humans eat the animals that eat the field corn?[/quote]Sure they do, but no humans other than ConvictedOne do.  The point is, the corn being used to make ethanol is not the same corn being grown for human consumption.  I guess *technically* one person can be fed for one year on the amount  of switchgrass(?) and sugarcane required to make sufficient motorfuel to fill up the fuel tank of one SUV; if you wish to eat them as well.[/quote]What am I missing?  Field corn is fed to beef cattle and people eat beef.  Field corn is fed to dairy cattle and people drink milk.  Field corn is fed to chicken and people eat chicken and chicken eggs.  People to not eat field corn directly, but they eat the animal products that are produced by feeding animals field corn.Therefore, if you create a shortage in supply of field corn, you drive up its price, and that price increase in turn drives up the price of beef, chicken, milk, and eggs that humans eat.
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