Ethanol is such a phenomenally disgusting boondoggle that it alone should be enough to convince anyone that the United States political system is utterly broken

Ethanol is such a phenomenally disgusting boondoggle that it alone should be enough to convince anyone that the United States political system is utterly broken. US politics is pay-to-play and nothing demonstrates it quite so clearly as the ethanol industry. It literally takes more energy to produce ethanol than we are able to derive from the ethanol. That we produce any of it is a testament to the corruption and/or ineptitude of our politicians.