THE LEFT FINALLY GETS ETHANOL

.....as I've been writing here for eons, Rolling Stone Magazine (yes, that Rolling Stone) has a major article that lays it out there in street language:

.....dangerous, delusional bullshit. Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. Our current ethanol production represents only 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption -- yet it consumes twenty percent of the entire U.S. corn crop, causing the price of corn to double in the last two years and raising the threat of hunger in the Third World. And the increasing acreage devoted to corn for ethanol means less land for other staple crops, giving farmers in South America an incentive to carve fields out of tropical forests that help to cool the planet and stave off global warming.

The piece lays out the political bias involved in what they call the "scam," the subsidies, the ag-politics, the ADM political clout (read: bribes, campaign contributions, and hookers), and the educators who never saw a government handout they didn't love. Anyway, welcome to the party. Better late than never.