Engineering360: "Is it Worth it to Use Corn as Biofuel?"

People sometimes like to say ethanol is driving the price of food up...It's not true, we planted more corn...In other words the corn that's being used for ethanol is the additional crops that were planted...It has also helped to stabilize the price of gasoline and added to the security of our domestic energy platform....this together with increased drilling and utilization of untapped oil resources has reduced our dependency on foreign sources for energy supply...It has also expanded the corn market and strengthened the farming community.....

US crude oil production.....In the last 10 years crude oil production in the US has doubled....currently near 9 million barrels a day....Our demand is about 20 million barrels a day....

I don't know why my graphs are cut in half....so I'll repost them....

I oppose the use of any food item be used for a non food purpose. Corn is food and should be used only as food. Starvation can be solved with corn, not as a fuel by-product.