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Re:Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin by philipkglass on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:10PM (#26624970)
Sadly, the United States has policies to specifically encourage burning food as fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol

Corn ethanol is ethanol produced from corn biomass and is the main source of ethanol fuel in the United States. Approximately 25% of U.S. corn croplands are used for ethanol production.

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Since 2001, corn ethanol production has increased by more than seven times. [In] 2018, out of 14.62 billions of bushels of corn produced, 5.60 billions of bushels were used to produce corn ethanol, reported by the United States Department of Energy.

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