If youve ever creeped your way through a corn maze at Halloween, you know how it can grab ahold of your imagination, turning benign stalks into monsters and discarded cobs into severed limbs. Its just a trick of the lightbut take a look at the ways that the U.S. uses corn, and youll see that a holiday thrill isnt the scariest thing about this product. It was first subsidized in the late 70s as a fossil fuel alternative, but its turned out to be inefficient source of fuel.
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