I hate the use of feed grains for the production of fuel. My cars would get much better efficiency with gasoline: Ethanol (E100) consumption in an engine is approximately 51% higher than for gasoline since the energy per unit volume of ethanol is 34% lower than for gasoline.
Jonrick46, did you vote for the corn based?
It is time and past time that any subsidy for converting feed grains into alcohol (ethanol) for motor fuel to be abolished.
If alcohol is that good a thing for a motor fuel, then it is easier, cheaper and far more feasible to convert a fraction of natural gas, ethylene, to 95% ethanol. This is already done on an industrial scale throughout the world.
For technical reasons, it is difficult to produce 100% ethanol, as the distillation and condensation point of ethanol-water mixture is LOWER than 100% totally water-free alone, and in an open container, the additional water is reabsorbed from the atmosphere until the equilibrium point of 95% purity is again achieved.