Stupid ethanol arguments

One of the first things you read about in the arguments about the pros and cons of ethanol as a fuel is the fact that it raises the prices of corn thus raising the prices of food thus ethanol is going to starve poor people etc etc.

Most of the corn that is produced and eaten is so far removed from the yellow kernel on the cob, and so utterly devoid of any nutritional value that it would probably collectively increase the nation's health if it was moved from the human tank to the gas tank.

Think of how much healthier everything would be with just the removal of high fructose corn syrup.

Yes, corn is subsidized by the government. Yes the corporations that produce it are evil.

But how hard is it to see the win win situation if we just shift that plant energy being turned into worthless unhealthy calories for humans and instead make ethanol that's just as good as gasoline.

We eat processed corn, we get fat and sick and die earlier.
We run cars on processed corn, they last just as long as they do running on gas while emitting less pollutants.

I promise I won't complain about the rise in tortilla chip prices either.

I'm not going to be clever with hyperlinks in this post, if you need to, just read The Omnivore's Dilemma.