Tortilla - Will ethanol make it, or is it going to bomb?

Will ethanol make it, or is it going to bomb?

Is ethanol going to be an end-all gasoline substitute, or is it going to cause food and other prices to rise so dramatically so as to obliterate its feasibility as a fuel? Do you think Big Oil is behind any of the negative press ethanol has received in the past month or so (tortilla/ethanol protests in Mexico, economic projections in agriculture, etc.)?

Public Comments

Hydrogen will come first, ethenol costs to much.
If Ethanol doesn't make it to California then I believe it will bomb....California needs it more then anywhere else and yet there is only one public E-85 gas station.
it is a fact that eventually we WILL switchover out of necessity. the oil industry has a lot to do with the delay of this process. the US makes enough food to give every person in the world 5 loaves of bread. I think we can handle the situation in the US if not our neighbors too. There in never any real shortage of food in the US.
Only if you want food prices to skyrocket and contribute to famine across the world.
I don't think it is going to make it. It is in its early stages here in the US and we are alreadv concerned about how it will force food prices to increase. It is growing rapidly here in the US but I am not sure we can continue to produce enough crop to keep drivers happy and also keep crop prices down if it were used as much as gasoline is used today.
It will never be the end as long as the big oil companies are running the show. Ethanol causes more polution then fossil fuels and is more cancerous, the only thing green about it is the money oil companies will make by mixing this cheaply made gas into the more expensive stuff we are already useing.
I think the real question is whether an fuel combustion economy is sustainable. It's a lot more efficient to feed corn to a horse and people really need to slow down anyway. I think neither ethanol nor petroleum can sustain a self-destructive technosystem and the whole mind set intent upon doing so is out of contact with reality.