I thought the idea behind ethanol was not to make more fuel, but to be a
replacement for MTBE to reduce pollution. I seem to remember reading that
it wasn't very effective in that regard, as compared to "normal" gas, but
was done as "pork" to the corn producing states.

To sum up the general political mood, I think the feeling is that it's
better to pay farmers to grow corn for ethanol than it is to pay them for
growing nothing.

It's stupid, but no one can apparently figure out how to wean the farmers
off the government teat without creating a catastrophe.
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