If you have a high compression engine you won't see much of a drop off at all. My Freestyle with 10:1 compression sees no difference between 10% ethanol and "regular". My old Gran Marquis with a lazy 4.6 V8 did lose 1 or 2 MPG. If you have an E85 compliant vehicle mileage drops off about 20% when using E85 vs "regular".
As for food -vs- fuel - it’s a joke. The US lost more acreage to urban sprawl in the last 15 years than it currently has planted in corn. The fact is farmland is so cheap because the commodity prices are so low. 50 years commodity prices kept land values high enough that people were reluctant to convert it to housing sprawl, now it’s every retiring farmers dream to have their land sold for uses other than ag because it will triple the price.
Our food prices are so low it’s blamed for creating the fattest country on earth.
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