[grania]

After 2012, this anti-free market maneuver would guarantee ethanol a growing fixed share of the country's fuel consumption every year, no matter what consumers actually demand or what better methods of reformulating gasoline come along.

Here's where the problem is. The government shouldn't be supporting the production of ethanol, corn growers in the Midwest or anything else.

It's a lousy fuel, so what? Just force the consumer to use it. The sad thing is that these kinds of maneuvers diminish innovation. If the government didn't butt in, throwing money around, maybe, just maybe, with some research and potential for economic success, scientists might come up with a good alternate fuel source.

[RushLake]

Here's where the problem is. The government shouldn't be supporting the production of ethanol, corn growers in the Midwest or anything else.

The so called family farm is an emotional issue. Although huge outfits like ADM are the norm now, we still have a hang up with the concept of the family farm with the whole family pitching in to make a go of it and living on the economic fringe. Somehow, the American public needs to be detached from that family farm image as being the norm.