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Not to mention using up excess corn that we don't have room to store (predicting corn yield is hard), which is why the whole corn-based ethanol thing got going.

But in normal human fashion we took what is a decent idea at limited scale and thought we could make it an even better idea if we scaled it up to ridiculous proportions. And in normal human fashion, instead of realizing our mistake in not applying some moderation, now we're convinced that what is a bad idea at ridiculous proportions must be eliminated entirely...



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