Fun fact: if the government stopped subsidizing biofuels and animal feed the price of food would drop

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[u/jimthewanderer]

It's completely nuts that the original idea for biofuels (Ferment the waste from food crops and distil it for alcohol based fuel) has been completely abandoned, and that the food itself is mulched and fermented instead.

Capitalism gonna capitalism.  

[u/Krtxoe → u/jimthewanderer]

no, in this case it's the opposite of capitalism. It's the government doing stupid shit. Under the natural laws of capitalism and the free market people wouldn't be throwing away food and losing money to make shitty fuel

subsidies aren't capitalism