There is a lot of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) regarding ethanol. Let me put these doubts to rest. Ethanol is a PROGRESSIVE and environmentally-friendly way to secure America's energy independence on Middle Eastern oil. It is also a sure path to win the War on Terror as well.
Al Gore (Nobel Prize winner for his work on climate change) supports Ethanol:
http://clinton3.nara.gov/...
"I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."
Although I have some disagreements with Al Gore, I believe he is 100% in supporting ethanol. In his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth", Gore also correctly points out that ethanol is carbon-neutral because whatever ethanol is consumed is replaced by new corn crops being grown.
Even former ethanol skeptic Hillary Clinton supports ethanol:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/...
Hillary has proposed a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development and deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency, ethanol and other homegrown biofuels.
So the next time someone complains that ethanol is causing the price of corn to rise too high or starts to spout crap like "Energy Returned On Energy Invested" (EROEI), just simply smack him or her down with the above quotes. Also, point out to them how stupid they are by pointing them to this article:
http://journalstar.com/...
The cattle, in turn, eat the corn byproducts left over from ethanol production and help to deliver on an energy formula that E3 BioFuels Chairman Dennis Langley said produces 45 British Thermal Units of energy for every BTU consumed.
That is an "EROEI" of 45:1, far more than what we're getting from Saudi Arabia's oil fields and we can finally tell the Islamofascists to stuff it and we can grow our own fuel here.
Al Gore believes in ethanol, don't you?