Any environmentalist will tell you that...not to mention the hit to food prices..

Thank the corn lobby and, American car companies pushing E85, and E85 vehicles (even though only a tiny fraction are actually burning it) because they were getting dramatic offsets to the corporate average fuel economy requirements..

Ethanol in small amounts (10% up to 15% max) is good as an octane booster and boosting a cleaner burn..

I think the only good that will come from it is spurring interest in developing cellosic ethanol (made of the otherwise waste fiber stalks, kudzu, old scrap wood or whatever you got as a waste product).