Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2020/04/coronavirus-and-ethanol-fuel-and-booze/
Coronavirus affects everything in the food system. Here’s what it’s doing to ethanol and alcoholic beverages.
Fuel ethanol
Q. What does fuel ethanol have to do with food politics?
A. About 40% of America’s corn crop is used for ethanol for cars, as a result of the fuel standards law requiring ethanol to be blended into gasoline.
Comment: Growing corn for ethanol seems absurd to me, particularly because the energy gain is so low—about 2% according to the USDA.
With that said, Covid-19 is unquestionably bad for the fuel ethanol business.
- Ethanol plants are in trouble. People aren’t…
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