John Biondi. “Anti-ethanol arguments are easily debunked.” Wisconsin Technology Network. August 1st, 2006 – “Another concern is that making ethanol from corn is going to take food away from the world, and that food should be a priority over fuel. While there may be kernels (sorry) of truth to this, we have time before being concerned and time to manage this. Out of last year’s corn crop of 11 billion bushels, 16 percent was used for fuel ethanol, 55 percent for animal feed, and less than 7 percent for human food.
Most importantly, we had a 2.4 billion bushel surplus, or carryover. If we fast-forward this movie to 2010, we find the percentage of fuel ethanol in the United States Department of Agriculture corn crop projections going up to 26 percent of the total crop, with nearly all of that additional demand being met by additional production.
Other uses of corn remain generally flat in real terms. Furthermore, in 2010 we will still produce a stock reserve of over two billion bushels, or 17 percent of production, according to the USDA.”
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