corn ethanol to be worse for global warming than gasoline once you consider all of its impacts. If all you study is the impact on corn farmers, corn ethanol is great!

Low oil prices are hurting ethanol? They were saying high oil prices were hurting them last summer--uneconomical, environmentally devastating.

"...ethanol has taken a lot of excess corn that we had in the state..."

The excess corn myth. Where did all of this "excess" corn go? Was it shot into space or was it sold on the global market?

"...ethanol production has created a lot of jobs..."

Define the term "a lot." I see a total of two people working this farmer's 900 acre corn field. It sure does not create a lot of jobs per square foot.

Switching from 50-50 corn to 65% corn is why soy is grown in the Amazon.

"...What happens in Iowa, should stay in Iowa...so why should our biofuels policy depend on something we have no control over?..."

Cause, global warming is global, that's why farmer Brown.

Feed for animals is food.

"...The farmers are hoping to preserve their way of life [their business models that turn 900 acres of land into a giant fertilized moonscape that then grows corn] and their land [which is just dirt used to hold fossil fuel derived chemicals and genetically modified seeds]...."

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world