[Cboldt]

-- If ethanol was so great it would require no subsidies of any sort, just like with gasoline. --

If it was like gasoline, one would have to pay for the right to prospect and extract (lease the field), and then pay a tax for the production, and then pay a tax for the retail sale. And then STILL be competetive with gasoline.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I'll bet you $1 that ethanol made many a millionaire using Taxpayers dollars. When the house started to collapse, they bailed, and now they are sucking on the public teat on some other hair-brained program.

The other consequence is how many politicians did methanol get elected over the years. The people that tried to talk sense to the public weren't elected.