"One is that meeting Bush's target would require using the entire U.S. corn harvest to make ethanol — pushing up corn prices and making ethanol even less cost-effective than it already is."

Wrong to assume corn is the only answer to supply Ethanol.

There are over 10 crops one can grow to make between 2 and 9 times more Ethanol per acre than corn, some of them can grow on ag land not requiring that crop land for corn and soy is touched.

Growing cattails and feeding them primary treated sewage on 20 million acres of land, some of could even be empty gravel pits, using less than 1.5% of the 1.3 billion acres of total farm land in the U.S.

Ten sections, 6400 acres per US County, Cattails can yield a minimum of 7500 gallons per acre as ethanol and methane.

We use 145 billion gallons of gas a year.

We can cover that demand with waste water and cattails and should have a little left over.

That answer and more are available in David Blume's "Alcohol can be a Gas"

We still can't fix the money problem until we do away with the Federal Reserve System. One will notice everything not nailed down is being shipped out by people fearful of a dollar meltdown. That is why corn wheat copper and moly is skyrocketing in price.