Don't know if this was posted earlier, but the ethanol/biofuels debate has gone mainstream on commondreams:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1101-32.htm

Another proof that Americans will try all the wrong solutions first before they do the right thing, eventually.

Current biofuels are a wasteful de-tour on the way to energy independence. And the future biofules that won't be, aren't here, yet.