Why do we purposely starve ourselves??

Question

why does the government mandate corn be used as ethanol??

this means taking perfectly good nutritious food out of our mouths of our families and spending tax money to create a fuel to put into our GAS TANK!!! wasting gas and diesel to transport perfectly good food and create more fuel???? whats more important.,.,food or fuel???

Answer 1

A somewhat double-edged question.  ;)  I do see your point and it makes total sense but also see how that corn does one little good as food if they cannot get to it.  While I do have a Mustang, I am fresh out of horses.  Plus, it does the corn no good to sit somewhere and spoil while people go hungry.  This has happened before and not just in other countries.  Unfortunately, corn isn't really all that nutritious compared to many of the foods corn gas can provide.  We really need a revamp on our system of food distribution.

edit - Heaven forbid one be able to see both sides of an argument around here.  I don't want anyone starving.  The government has upon occasion paid the farmers to not grow while people are starving.  That upsets me more than this mandate.  They made mandates like this to put food into research and development, decades ago.  Personally, I would rather they use the corn they are currently using to pump high-fuctose corn syrup into just about everything.  We really could use less of that.  Also, they don't make a habit of using 'quality' food for conversion to gas.  They've done the corn for ethanol mandate before.  I'm not surprised they're doing it again.  If the % is what it has been before, it's a joke.  No one will be going hungry because of that.  They're more likely to go hungry not being able to afford to go to the grocery store.  All that changing not the fact that there could be a mountain of corn and it wouldn't do you a l**k of good if you had no way to get to it before it spoiled.  Therein lies the compromise, without even taking into account all the other more perishable foods that that small corn sacrifice could get you.