While I’m a fan of innovation, it seems really dumb to me how they keep finding “alternative uses” for crops that either are food or food ingredients (ethanol & soy being two big ones) directly, or that must displace foods in order to be grown. To add insult to injury, not only is food crop planting controlled by artificial diktat rather than market forces, many of these alternative uses are then subsidized with our tax dollars.
The most ironic part has been covered before by Jason Fenske- ethanol is sold as a “green” fuel, but when the entire lifecycle is accounted for, ethanol results in roughly 24% MORE CO2 release than petroleum!