Ethanol is not the solution to higher gas prices

With current events stirring up global energy prices, corn ethanol is once again being dressed up as if it is a domestic energy source and agent of energy security.The truth is that it takes more fossil fuel energy to make a gallon of corn ethanol than a gallon of gasoline. It is time to face this unpleasant truth and the other perverse outcomes achieved by 20 years of misguided policy.Biofuels in general are just a way to put a green fig leaf on petroleum by rerouting it through a farm field.In...