Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

A new refinery is important now for the short term because we'd like to have cheaper gasoline for our transport sector and industry. We have to take advantage of Mexico's offer because we're not going to exploit our own petroleum resources. We won't put our biodiversity at risk.