... by wide consensus a majority of the energy in corn-starch ethanol is greenwashing fossil fuels via energy intensive monoculture. With such poor real returns as an input, there's got to be some bennies for the corporations to explain the political success, and using it as leverage to tap into the price-inelastic portions of the family food budget is an obvious target.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.