The main issue with ethanol is that it is made from food.
So either crops being grown for fuel rather than food, or crops being grown so you get both the ethanol by-product and a glutton of food pushed onto the market that is not needed.
One also needs to question what is grown to make it from. (i think its corn and sugar mainly) Crops like rice and cotton out the back of the boonies where there is no torrential rain is hardly enviromentally responsible. Just because you can make a profit from farming it does not mean its the right thing to be farmed.
Sure it would be better to crop fuel rather than rape resources. But the ballance needs to be right. In Australia it is not. Farmers here can not make a living doing what they do as subsidised food lands on our shores. And most of it is poor quality. Subsidised food should go to the countries that can not afford to pay full price.
We should pay fair money for the mid to high grade food that is grown here and the best of the best should be sent on to the richest of the rich wherever they be.
What about the low grade food thats produce here (by accident or weather gods) animals need to eat and processed food.
End rant.
