Spiff ... Ethanol is an excellent idea, and will require market forces to become more prevelant. You are quite correct, it is totally renewable, would lower costs of subsidies to farmers, and burns clean.

And PLEASE, NOBODY is allowed to lower his opinion of Spiff because I agreed with him ...

Ford has had a flexible fuel engine available for ten years now which will burn Propane, Ethanol, Gasoline, OR natural gas.

Noone seems to want it ... but eventually, it will become accepted, when WE decide we want it.

Ford also has a new Turbo-Diesel Hybrid ... 431 Lb-Feet of torque and 300 HP, yet it will get about 40 MPG highway in an SUV ... It is due in about 18 months.