Are you telling me that all the articles I’ve read about how the increased demand for corn due to the ethanol mandate causing the increase in prices in corn based food stuffs and the meat/dairy industry are wrong? I’ll have to look into that. I’ll start here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ethanol+causing+increase+dairy+prices
If filling our tanks and heating our homes wasn't costing an arm and a leg, perhaps $4.50 for a gallon of milk wouldn't be quite as painful. Additionally, if grasses and wheat straw and other things that you seem to think don't get used for anything else are being utilized for methanol production, what about all of the land that currently produces hay for feeding to livestock?
I'm not convinced that there is enough scrub land in this country to produce everything needed for full scale methanol production. I certainly could be wrong. Do you have figures?
Methanol is not THE answer, but it is definitely part of the solution. There is no ONE solution. We need to develop many and let the winners lead the way and the other wither on the vine, so to speak. Solar works in some areas, wind in others. Unless we stop looking for THE solution, we are blinded by the problem.