http://www.cellomomcars.com/2023/07/farming-for-cars.html
Of the 80 million acres of US corn, 45% of it is "fed" to ICE engines so grossly inefficient that 2/3 of it gets wasted as heat.
"we sacrifice 36 million acres of prime farmland" to feed a fossil fuel addiction.
"Think about it: 2/3 of that good farm land is wasted. 2/3 of the water to irrigate the corn, thrown away. 2/3 of the fertiliser & the attendant runoff: for nothing. 2/3 of the fossil fuels burned for energy to work the land & process the ethanol: wasted"
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