The ethanol plants are around 50 miles apart. They do not even use all of the corn in there area. The farmers around here got around 230 bushels per acre. I do not for see us running out of corn by 2008. Every year corn yeilds go up some more. It sounds like you are not for the farmer getting some fair prices for there corn. Every one wants cheap prices especially for food, but the price for everything to produce the food goes up and nobody complains about that. Corn is also used to heat homes. It is the cheapest fuel for heating a home. We have one and do not pay the high price for propane. The big oil companies are just greedy. They use every little excuse to raise the price of gas. They have sat back and have hardly done anything except reap in big profits. They complain about their refineries getting old. Well I don't feel sorry for them if they haven't been fixing up and remodeling all of these years. They want the people to feel sorry for them as the sit on billions of profit. Not this person, I'm for the farmer for finally getting a chance to make some money. BJ Iowa

This seems a bit assinine to me, as ethanol can be produced from nearly any kind of plant growth, including trees, soybeans, etc. Farmers know that there are other ethanol producing crops other than maize(corn)that can be planted and grown which would be even better than corn, not to mention harvesting even weeds and grasses from open lands in National parks and praries that can be used to produce ethanol, without depleting our corn crops.