is corn a food or fuel?

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[ confused about the corn photo? i wanted a picture for a blog post. ]

even just a few years ago it would have been inconceivable to imagine that people would be wondering if corn is food or fuel. but with nearly 80 ethanol plants under construction and estimates that our increased, er, appetite for the fuel could use as much as half of america's corn crop next year it's suddenly become a timely question.

think it's an academic point? tell that to the mexican poor hit by the 400 per cent increase in tortilla prices fueled, ahem, by demand for corn-based ethanol.

not entirely coincidentally, new research sponsored by bp shows that the "energy balance" of producing ethanol is essentially neutral which means that converting corn into ethanol doesn't necessarily use more fossil energy than the energy contained in the ethanol produced.

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	relentlesstoil says: Daughter Maya would be mighty sad not to have "corns" and "more corns" for supper. I'd grow some, but we have killer deer :D Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	snowdeal says: relentlesstoil: "Daughter Maya would be mighty sad not to have "corns" and "more corns" for supper. odin too! but, curiously, he prefers his corn steamed not frozen. Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	Edward Vielmetti says: fuel, based on the stories my co-worker tells of her corn-growing farm family in Iowa. Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	89AKurt says: This scheme is a joke! Even Princeton University, promoter of global Warming, admits it: www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarmin g/2008-02-08... Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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