Ethanol guidelines

Glad to see that the EPA is tightening guidelines under which corn ethanol will be produced in this country. On the one hand we need to be patient with corn ethanol since ratcheting up of the technology should produce big results, but on the other hand switching the US corn crop all to ethanol has had some pretty severe impacts on food prices particularly in other countries. The global economic slowdown is hiding those from us now, but if and when things crank up again the poor will once again be feeling the hurt. In addition to giving incentives to improve corn processing technology, hopefully this will increase incentives for cellulosic technology, which is looking like the wave of the future right now. Be great to be able to turn waste into energy instead of turning food (even animal food) into energy....