The Renewable Fuels Association publishes an annual industry outlook about the status of the ethanol industry. They just published the 2007 document. It has some inaccuracies that I caught but it is a good summary. Check it out.

It certainly is a slickly produced document, on par with the better products from the the various lobbying groups in DC (which is what it is.)

There are some very misleading statements in that document, but they play well towards the audience in Congress and the Senate. Note that party affiliation is of no concern here - e.g., look at Iowa's senators, one is among the most conservative of Republicans and the other a mainstream liberal Democrat but on this issue there is no meaningful difference between them. They have about 20 or so compatriots, from roughly the 10 states in which grain ethanol plays an increasingly important part of their respective economies.

Against such social structures there is little to be accomplished quickly. This is where where the creative works, such as the movie under production, comes in. Through the use of creative talents (film, video, photography, even music) larger swaths of the public can be challenged about the future, more effectively so than a specialist website such as TOD.