Go ahead and listen to the idiot environmentalists and use our food crops to make ethanol instead of drilling for our own oil. We have all the oil we need off our own coasts and within the boundaries of our country, not to mention the vast amounts of oil shale. Yes we need alternative fuel vehicles, but that won't happen anytime soon. I guess we are suppose to pay 5.00 per gallon for gas and starve ourselves until that time comes just because some tree huggers say we can't drill for our own oil. The last statistics I heard stated it took one gallon of fuel to process one gallon of ethanol. Now that is really making progress, isn't it?