They laid the ethanol thing out on a show not long ago, and went through every aspect of it, your right, it does actually more harm to us than just staying the way we are until somebody thinks of something better. The cost was actually worse for Ethanol in the long run, and boy, it took a mighty lot of farm product to make a little dab of ethanol, not to mention diverting that much farm product had a pretty bad effect on other things. In the end, the price of ethanol was high, and even less mileage and then there is I ain't putting that stuff in my baby....
I think we can do better than ethanol. We have the technology to do some amazing things. Most all the things we take for granted now like electricity did not come from a lot of Government involvement, it came from the private sector. There is probably some kid out there somewhere right now that can figure out how to use water for fuel, only without all the red tape, bureaucracy and greed government would put with it.