John,

Editorial in today's LA Times titled:

As global starvation worsens, the U.S. plans to devote vast amounts of grain to producing ethanol.

"The U.S. is the world's top corn exporter, and about a quarter of last year's crop went to ethanol. Food prices, meanwhile, have increased so much that the World Food Program says it will have to raise $500 million more just to carry out its scheduled operations."

"It needn't come down to a choice between conserving oil or feeding the poor. The U.N. has developed a tool for assessing the impacts of biofuel production on food security, something Congress never bothered to study before passing its extravagant mandate."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,1470804.story

In addition there's a link to the FAO, Food and Agricultural Org. of the UN: the link is tool in the last para: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/...782/index.html

Also the State of California has 3 E85 stations with plans to open more.

To paraphrase Ross Perot: "The gurgling sound you hear is your corn soup being pumped into your gas tank."

Great riding weather today. I'm outta here.