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on Jan 10, 2013
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The bulk of corn subsidies are for ethanol, which should result in prices of i.e. HFCS going up, not down, right?
roc
on Jan 10, 2013
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Only if we assume that absent ethanol, that farmland would be used to grow corn for food/HFCS. Which isn't true. We also subsidize
not
farming. So much of the land used for ethanol would be otherwise left fallow.
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