top | item 44990694 (no title) julienchastang | 6 months 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. discuss order hn newest ethan_smith|6 months 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. bluGill|6 months 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
ethan_smith|6 months 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.
bluGill|6 months 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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