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Food crops are more valuable as food in India than as a source of fuel. Corn, especially, is subsidized in the US to make it overly competitive against foreign sources of sucrose/glucose. That's why soda in the US has corn syrup instead of sugar, when the same soda in every other country in the world is made with cane or beet sugar.

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