[JustaDumbBlonde]

The U.S. can produce far more grains that it can consume. If we can utilize it for some other reason than food, what is your gripe? Are we now obligated to grovel in the middle east so that we can feed the ungrateful world that could not possibly care less whether we live or die? Just asking.

[Delacon]

Just want to add again that unlike ethanol which is causing food prices to go up, methanol can be made from ANY plant material. That means we can tell the farmers go back to farming food stuffs and get more farmers to grow grass, or wood in areas not suitable to growing grains. Also it can be made by trapping C02 or from methane gas. So no food production problem.