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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by refurb on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:52AM (#30346369)
So your story is farmer stops doing activity A and does activity B because it makes more money?
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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by paxys on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:53AM (#30349070)
> because it makes more money

Because it gets taxpayer money for no reason

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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by alistairSH on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:27AM (#30347684)
I don't think the OP was faulting the rancher. He's agreeing that federal corn subsidies are warping the market.
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