re: #13 iossarian

I can certainly see a valid complaint with the use of corn to make ethanol. With corn prices sharply increasing and shortages of corn around the world, it doesn’t make very much sense for the US to subsidize a corn-to-ethanol industry.

Putting that money into other, developing technologies like cellulosic ethanol production, using switchgrass or algae or what-have-you, seems to be the better choice.

I could be wrong, but corn ethanol is a losing proposition as far as I know, even with corn at reasonable prices.