Originally Posted By: KG2V
When the Feds start subsidizing the mfg of eythanol, the price of HFCS went UP, because the demand for corn to make ETOH went up, so it's now as cheap/cheaper for them to use sugar

Interesting. I had assumed that demand for corn for ethanol had tanked as the economy tanked and demand for gasoline eased, but at least as far as HFCS prices go, I just looked them up and they continued to rise through 2009. At the end of 2009, the price was 50% higher than it was 5 years earlier.

However, I do see that HFCS prices have been coming down again in 2010, so we may yet again see more HFCS in our food products again. In any case, most of us eat way, way too much sugar, even if we don't really eat many "sugary" things.