Heating with corn , Heizen mit Weizen

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People should really check there data before posting. In the USA 8% of the corn grown goes to food for human consumption. The bulk of the corn goes to feed cattle, which is sad to say as their digestive system is not efficiently digest starches, about 87% of  the corn goes to cattle, 20% of that goes to foreign cattle. The other point that should be made is that the corn for food (cattle or human) needs to be higher quality and needs to be grown on prime land. Fuel corn needs to be of high quantity and can be grown on other soil from the food grade corn. So no land competition, no food vs fuel competition, only farmer vs major oil co. competition, and we all suffer.

As a side note, developments in processing plants to fuel are reaching the point where the food portion of the plant is not used in making the fuel.