While I agree that corn based ethanol is not the answer to energy independence, that article has alot of doom and gloom. We are not going to run out of oil in the next 9 years. There is plenty of shale(sp?) oil in US, when oil prices dropped to $10 a barrel it wasn't cost effective to drill here in the US. But now that oil actually cost more for a barrel it is worth it to drill here.
We cannot become the first nation in history to burn our food supply!