Reading this with interest.
My first, uninformed take was that making ethanol from corn was inefficient (compared to sugar crops) and was a payoff to ADM and other agribusinesses. As a consumer, it screws up two stroke engines and decreases octane, or so I've been told.
Now I don't know what to believe. It takes no leap of faith to believe that the oil companies would want to quash ANY competition.
WHAT do YOU make of it? I would trust your judgement as the most informed mind I know on these matters.