Following up on this, and also further explicating how ADM isn't totally behind this: high fructose corn syrup is TERRIBLE from a human health standpoint. ADM doesn't necessarily like the cost of their sweetner becoming un-cost-competitive with sugar or another sweetner. I for one would much rather drink coke sweetened with HFCS than drink water with MTBE in it. SO MUCH of the corn supply goes to making coke and candy bars, I can't even begin to tell you how little an impact from a health perspective taking corn entirely out of the food supply would actally exact.

But for the most important thing I can say here? I don't know if people on here understand or realize this, but "ethanol" is the same "alcohol" as what we drink in wine, beer or Jack Daniels. Just think of the general lee driving around on pure moonshine, and you'll start to understand why the oil industry was and always has been opposed to any fuel people could make for themselves.