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> Food is a stupid argument invented by the oil companies.

It's not that stupid, we still have many millions of people in utter food insecurity, and not just in the "third world" but also across our Western nation.

IMHO, people should come before cars when it comes to distribution of food, and we should electrify automotive to get rid of the entire issue anyway. What few renewable fuels we have, we will sooner or later need to power air flight and ocean-crossing ships, as we do not have any alternative to some sort of combustible fuel for either purpose.



We have a food distribution problem. The world makes more than enough food to feed everyone.

As an aside, corn ethanol is not made with the type of corn that could be used for human consumption. We could use those same fields to produce human food, but refer back to the first paragraph of this post for why we don't do that.




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