If ethanol is so great, why are we spending $3 billion in subsidizing it?

I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq),

Soil erosion is second only to population growth as the biggest environmental problem the world faces. Yet, the problem, which is growing ever more critical, is being ignored because who gets excited about dirt?

[Corn-derived ethanol] collects too little energy for all the investments of energy we have to use to produce it.

It's another pro-ethanol paper. There's several things I have problems with.

It would help agriculture (if it were).