Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

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.

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

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