Dr. No

The Case Against Ethanol

Two thirds of Americans are overweight, one third is obese, worse than any other country. 70% of grain is used to generate animal protein at a 8:1 ratio. There is huge savings potential for grain in a better diet (ie avoiding cardivascular and metabolic diseases) by cutting meat intake. Also, Americans eat twice as much as they need per day - again huge savings potential right on your plate.
Finally, America is the biggest consumer of everything: energy, food.

Make the connection fatzo: eat less - drive more!

Ethanol Update: Crush Spread Plunges, Bush Expresses Concern

Well if you think cellulosic ethanol all the way through, and consider that turning forested areas into agricultured will release tons of GHG (just read the two recent science papers in a biggr sense), is cellulosic ethanol from wood chips still such a great idea ???
Because as you turn the wood into ethanol your land needs to be dealt with and you all of sudden created agriculture, which is exactly what the science papers were attacking.

Cramer: "Ethanol Is a Fuel That Doesn't Work"

Cramer uses (as the author of this post) the ethanol tag word as a board to jump on a waggon. While there are issues with ethanol, rising oil prices (i.e. 100% from Feb 07 to Feb 08) have a much bigger impact on food and all living expenses than increased use of corn for ethanol. Run the numbers! (so the corn in a box of corn flakes is about 10c, how much does the box sell for ?)

Archer Daniels Midland's Collaboration With ConocoPhillips Good News For Shareholders

There is a lot of hyped up mumbo-jumbo in this comment that is not really connected to each other but sounds really cool.
Yet, ADM is not anymore the largest EtOH producer (VeraSun is); none of the cellulosic (no "t") technologies are proven large scale, a.k.a. efficient (cost is 3 times conventional EtOH and that is barely profitable); for the farmer there is a choice to make: either EtOH or soy/diesel so it is a trade off always in supplies; there are only 10% diesel cars on the roads and the air pollution rules are not friendly to them; what exactly is biocrude ????

Re: Georealist, yep now new technologies lately - yet, the technologies have been around already since twenty years, no need to reinvent them (except to hype investors about "new" stuff). Just apply them! Oh yeah, Syngas, aka CTL, GTL or BTL is technology from the 1920's, nothing new there and still investors wet their pants when they hear it.