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hunter

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2. What is wrong with our political system that we can't shut down this fuel ethanol scam?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2024, 09:24 AM

Sep 2024

Aside from burning fossil fuels agriculture is the most environmentally destructive activity humans engage in. There is nothing "green" about farming. We should be doing our best to minimize it.

Some of the most biologically desolate places on earth are vast acreages of corn grown for fuel ethanol and industrial meat production.

In a better world we would be buying out these farmers and rewilding this land.

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