Will You USE Blended Ethanol Gas in Your Car? Will it help?

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You don't typically eat the type of corn you use in ethanol, at least not directly.

True, field corn is what hogs, cattle and chicken eat. We eat field corn indirectly. On the plus side, the mash leftover after removing the ethanol can be fed to livestock although its nutrient value has been depleted

Sweet corn and field corn, what are the differences?

"Ukraine is a major exporter of both wheat and corn, accounting for 12% and 17% of global supply, respectively. And Russia's wheat exports account for almost 17% of global supply, Insider's Urooba Jamal notes. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, food prices have started to soar." Ukraine is also the world' largest exporter of sunflower oil.

My advice, dear readers, is to buy a little extra pasta and a couple of extra bottles of vegetable oil: not to hoard but to buy what you will use until next Spring ahead of time. Rice is a good substitute too.

I've read a large number of comments about how white people care more about Ukrainians than Yemenis, Somalians, Eritreans, Sudanese, and other non-Europeans who too have wars. That may be true but when grain gets scarce and prices skyrocket, we first-worlders will just have to dig deeper into our wallets and not buy something else but those poorest of third world countries will starve. It would not be surprising if the number who starve because of this war will outnumber the number of Ukrainians and Russians who die in the war.