In 1996 when they came out with ethanol, I said:

SCAM!

Millions of people in the world are starving, and the bread basket of the world rushed to plant corn for ethanol.  Follow the money.

Are you aware that a gallon of gas mixed with ethanol gets 1/3 to 1/2 the mileage of just a plain gallon of gas?

Back in the 70′s when OPEC was playing their games, domestic energy companies did a huge exploration of the USA and Continental Shelf.  They found enough natural gas that if we converted everything that requires fuel to clean-burning natural gas, the supply was big enough to run the whole country for 2000 years.

Go figure!

Cost a lot to convert?  Maybe. 

But we’d rather pay Arab countries who’d just as soon kill us.