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julienchastang
294 days ago
> while boosting support for biofuels, which consume the majority of the country’s cropland.
Wow. I knew it was a lot but did not know it was the majority.
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ethan_smith
294 days ago
The article's claim is misleading - biofuels don't consume the majority of US cropland. Corn for ethanol uses ~38% of US corn production, but only about 7% of total US cropland is devoted to all biofuel crops combined according to USDA data.
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bluGill
294 days ago
you can run numbers in many ways. a part of most crops goito renewable but there is other parts on the same crop used for food
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