Obama said again in his inaugural speech that wind, solar and soil would be the renewable energy sources. Those who think that soil i.e. bio fuels will not be part of the the energy program of the Obama administration are delusional.

He ran on a bio fuel platform, was elected on it and has given every indication that he intends to follow through. He has nominated Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary.

It was Vilsack who led Iowa to try to be a leader in alternative energy production. Wind, ethanol and bio diesel have renewed Iowa's long faltering rural economy. Now comes ideologues like the author with straw-man arguments that ignore the benefits of bio fuels and concentrate only on problems. Every change has winners and losers. There are more winners than losers with bio fuels IMO.

The article is heavy on global think. The most any country has is control of its own resources. There is no way to enforce the ideological agendas of those who see bio fuels as the devil. The United States has the right to maximize the utility of it's own resources, be it soil or what ever. And so does every other country.

Tough, but that is the way it is.