same flawed logic I always hear. It costs more in fuel to make ethanol than it releases. Instead of wasting tax dollars and consumer dollars on a crappy fuel, let's drill for our own damn oil.
If ethanol states were the last in the presidential primaries, nobody would take ethanol seriously as a fuel source. Liberals would attack it as harming the envirmonment (it does) and conservatives would attack it as inefficient and a waste of money.
Instead, they throw money at it, supported by people like you who by their horrible claims of "it's either support the A-rabs or buy ethanol!"
Don't get distracted by the shell game. The prize isn't foreign oil or crappy ethanol, it's domestic oil production.
At current prices, Saudi Arabia doesn't have the biggest reserves. Our good pal in Venezuela does ;)
You know, I love to drive a big, roomy gas guzzler as much as the next person, but thinking about what sort of stuff my gas dollars are funding makes me want to break down and get a hybrid :P
I think this is one of the few places I can find common ground with the left. They want to reduce/replace oil consumption in order to to stop the global warming boogeyman and save a few reindeer from having to walk around a pipe. I don't want to be lining the pockets of those who want to murder us all. Different motives, same goal.
Perhaps once oil shale production becomes economical (I'm sure it will happen eventually -- it just needs time), things will change. Until then, I'll be a fan of ethanol and biodiesel.