[xcamel]

It does neither, and using food for fuel is about as stupid as the human race can get, unless the whole scam is based on junk science to begin with, which makes it waaay beyond dumb.

[mylife]

Ethanol is pretty lame as far as energy goes and I agree that food should be used as food rather than an inefficient fuel.

Ethanol has tons of problems, but if it means freedom from energy tryany in the short term, I say play the card

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's not right to use food for fuel. However, if the technology is developed for producing ethanol from cellulose, I think that will be a "good thing" for many reasons.