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Ethanol accounts for a large share of US corn consumption:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/521847/cornuse.jpg

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx

The chart is hard to read exact numbers from, there is a table available at the second link. 2008 was the last year that feed accounted for more than 1/2 of corn use (it still accounts for nearly 1/2 today, I'm not trying to be pedantic there, just adding information).

Ethanol is clearly a big enough portion of consumption to be impacting the price of corn used for food, which isn't the same thing as burning edible food, but it's a reason to carefully consider what incentives are created by various government programs.




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