Consider this: in order to use ethanol, you need a vehicle that will run it. If the price of most of our food is going to increase, it will hurt the auto market even more. People will not have the money to buy a flex fuel vehicle. This move is truly bad for the economic environment of this country.

Yes we need to wean ourselves from foreign oil dependence, but this is not the best way to go about it.

Do the large companies have an issue with hydrogen? There must be less profit in that route for it to not even be considered as an option to explore with as much vigor as the corn solution.

For those of us who choose to keep our vehicles more than a couple of years, it will be a long time before a benefit will be seen from ethanol. In the meantime, we all will be paying higher prices so that those who can afford the flex fuel vehicles can drive them and flex fuel may not even end up being the ultimate solution.

Furthermore, if our farmland is usurped by corn rows, and livestock is going to be a hot commodity, we are going to end up importing a great deal of our sustenance. This opens us up to national security risks in our food supply where the pet food scenario is just the tip of the iceberg.

Do we really want to increase our trade deficit and risk our food supply and economy for this single solution?