The Stupidity of it All

SEE HERE First of all Ethanol is a lousy fuel when compared with gasoline. Why are we subsidizing this bad alternative which is expensive and drives food prices up as well? If you want to help farmers I can think of a lot of ways that would be more effective than subsidizing food grains being diverted to make ethanol. This is all out of control green stupidity which somehow imagines that making food more expensive is a smart move rather than pumping otherwise useless stuff out of the ground. But then what do you expect when you put intellectuals to work figuring this stuff out. It's not that they are not smart people, but they don't typically have a lot of common sense. Has anyone asked the question where this strategy goes? Has anyone run the equations to find out how much of our fuel could be replaced by diverting farm production to fuel production? I doubt that this makes any kind of long term sense and if it doesn't make long term sense then the expensive adventure of short term subsidization doesn't make sense either.