Don’t think that he overstated its importance if you put everything he said in context...
Look, I understand the requirements on a politican to get elected. My dad was a politician for 10 years. I'm just saying that some of us give Fred a free ride. We can name any number of other candidates that if they were telling some guy that ethanol was part of the solution to our dependency on middle east oil... we'll the posters here would be slaming him. But it's FRED so.... you know... it's okay.