So “Show Me Ethanol” can now produce more of its inefficient fuel and further help drive up food prices. Great. This article should come with a note on how much water and energy is required to create a gallon of biofuel.

Subsidizing the production of ethanol has served to benefit only one group - corn growers. It has driven up the cost of the gasoline to which it is added, the cost of feed for cattle, pigs and chickens, and so on up the food chain. It takes more than three units of primary energy to produce two equivalent units of ethanol. This business model isn’t broken; it doesn’t rise to the level of being a business model in the first place.

To paraphrase, “It’s the economics, stupid!” When will our politicians gather the intestianl fortitude to put public policy and welfare ahead of special interests and political gain?!!

Kit Bond should introduce legislation outlawing ethanol production since he (likely) was instrumental in making ethanol part of federal public policy. Show me Ethanol and its ilk should be made illegal.

While I agree that ethanol may be helping in driving up the cost of corn, ethanol is only a small part of the food problem. The largest contributor to the increase in food cost is oil and oil has been driven up by the low valuation of the dollar and speculators. Fix those problems and you will see your food costs come down substantially quicker than you would by getting rid of ethanol. Infact if you got rid of ethanol your gas cost would increase and corn would decrease some but, again corn is a commodity and can be driven up by speculators.
I am not saying that ethanol is the solution to our oil problem but I dont think it is as big of a problem as some seem to think.