Excuse me but that article is totally useless in this 'neck of the woods'. There's a much bigger and better reason why the farmers are growing more and more corn around here; Kernal Burners. The newest heating 'adventure' to hit the frugal consumers is the corn burning wood stove. It has put such a demand on corn that the ethanol question is overshadowed. The kernal burners actually work! Where as, the ethanol was a lost cause from the start...around here anyway. And if global warming(if real) keeps creeping, then we can all join Willy and his vegetable oil cars. The biggest downside of the veggy fuel is it gells up in the cold. Long live global warming! It will save us all.