There you go ... trying to inject common sense and reality into a corn (and therefore ethanol) thread. LOL!
Granted, ethanol is a poor vehicle, but the right concept, except for the subsidy.
If we did say, butanol, no subsidy, no engine issues, would there be a problem? Especially if the rest of the corn were separated up front into protein, oil, and whatever else is of value.
Create jobs, give the farmer a better outlet for his product. Better than putting it on a barge, waving to Huck Finn as you float by, and shipping it to people who hate us.
I think some just want to back to subsidized meat, which was what our current farm policy was designed for back under FDR. Meat in some ways is the original ethanol. I like cheap meat as much as the next guy, but I don’t think meat should be a sacred cow, pun intended, any more than ethanol.
Let’s get a true free market going for the farmer and consumer, not what we have now.