Because when the government endorses something as good, you know someone - not you - is making a huge amount of money.

Like most of you, I was fed the whole ‘ethanol is a wonderful and friendly fuel and everybody wins!’

Like a few of you, I wondered how the starving people around the world would feel if they knew we would rather drive our cars for a little while longer than help them survive by handing over even a fraction of the corn the Midwest harvests.

I think it is best summed up in the title the poster on VideoSift used: Ethanol: Silly Senator, Corn is for Food!