[BitWielder1]

Whenever you cook one kind of fuel into another, there will be losses.
The best way to use bio-energy is to cultivate whatever weed grows best in that locale and shove it into a nearby burner to generate electricity or heat.
No other conversion is necessary.
Let the cars run on pure gasoline.
Don't compete with our food supply.
Wood is good!

[I got the rope]

Corn Ethanol generates 2x the energy than it takes to produce it. Sugar Cane Ethanol generates 8x the energy than it takes to produce it.

Wrong!!!!! Corn ethanol generates 2x less energy than it takes to produce it. Not sure what the figure is for sugar cane...but both are net losers.

[Mr. Lucky]

Facts rarely are allowed to get in the way of a good rant, but "most of" the ethanol produced in the United States does not come from Archer Daniels Midland.

In 2009, there were 160 American producers of fuel grade ethanol, the largest of which produced 11% of the total volume. ADM, by the way, wasn't the largest; Poet Biorefining was, while Valero Energy was third.