I'm on record,

for saying the ethanol fiasco is just a rip-off, where farmers are given subsidies, (our taxes), to grow corn, from which ethanol is produced, that takes more (oil) energy to produce than it creates. Along the way, it bumps ups all food prices, as all livestock food, for chickens, cattle and pigs goes WAY up, and land used to grow corn isn't used to grow other food, not to mention the wasted water, AND, as a special bonus, that ethanol fuel isn't near as eficient. About twice a year I drive to Nebraska and my vehicle, which keeps track of gas mileage, shows me the same thing EVERY time. That 10% ethanol blend that they sell in corn country gets approx 15% worse gas mileage than straight gasoline. Every time it's the same, BUT, we gotta subsidize the Repub farms states to grow corn for ethanol with all the hidden, and not so hidden costs associated with it. Just plain crap, that the politicians foist on us, and we all pay for, so the Repub farm states get their share of 'pork', from the public trough. What a bunch of BS.