re: We have ethanol because farmers in Iowa want your money

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Iowa is making money off of fricking up engines with ethanol and causing diabetes with high fructose corn syrup.

SMH

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Just clearing up some items above.

There are 2 kinds of Corn Ethanol production.

1.) "Dry Grind" facility = Corn as the input and Ethanol, Distillers Grains and CO2 as the outputs. A Dry Grind facility CANNOT make High Fructose Corn Syrup. The bulk majority of ethanol comes from these types of facilities.

2.) "Wet Mill" facility = Corn as the input and High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Gluten Meal, Corn Gluten Feed, Corn Germ, Corn Bran and a whole host of other by-products/co-products and Ethanol can be one of those products, but a Wet Mill can operate WITHOUT producing a drop of ethanol. Depends on how they stream their plant to operate versus the economics of the stream being produced.