I remember Bill O Reilly was using his show to sell ethanol as this magic energy solution, and selling it very strongly, claiming it would make us energy independed (I stopped watching him after that).
Tariffs keep imported sugar ethanol competition away from US and threatening the corn ethanol profits
corn ethanol profits rule congress;.
Some people forgot, or never knew, that they kicked off with corn to get cash flow to offset R&D costs of cellulose.
I'm pretty sure that there is some white lighting man down in the south trying to figure out how to ferment kudzu.