One of those "the debate is over" pronouncements would seem to be in order here

The Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, says the government should move quickly to further jeopardize America’s food sources and expend greater amounts of carbon-emitting energy to produce a less efficient energy source which may, in fact, be detrimental to the machinery that will run on this energy source thus tacking on an additional cost burden to the entire process.

Actually, Vilsack, didn’t say any of that. He spared everybody the boring and mundane consequences that no one really wants to hear anyway by merely saying the government should move quickly to increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline.

We’ve previously been dismissive of the “job creation” brought about by government-subsidized green technology and boy, we’re we wrong. As ethanol shortens the life span of the engines that run on it and burns through fuel hoses quicker than unblended fuel just think of all the jobs that will be “created” at engine manufacturing plants and in the rubber industry trying to keep up with the demand for replacement parts.

Learning something new every day.