It’s the ethanol in gas, hand soap, adhesives, chewing gum, paints and fireworks, most medication, makeup and so on and so on.
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Because in the US we grow an absolute metric fuckton of corn, and anything that can be used will be used. We grow over a third of the entire world supply of corn. 350 million metric tons in 2022. We eat it, we feed it to livestock, we turn it into Ethanol, we turn it into starches and oil and syrups and powder and then put all that into other products, you can do a ton of stuff with corn. And it’s byproducts.
Any useful byproduct from processing corn into something else is going to be available at rock bottom prices due to the supply. And if it’s cheap and available and it’s something you can use, it tends to be used.
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