Time Magazine is reporting on recent studies suggesting the harm to human survival and the environment from our move to corn-based ethanol and other biofuels:

THE CLEAN ENERGY SCAM

[B]y diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year. Harvests are being plucked to fuel our cars instead of ourselves. The U.N.'s World Food Program says it needs $500 million in additional funding and supplies, calling the rising costs for food nothing less than a global emergency. Soaring corn prices have sparked tortilla riots in Mexico City, and skyrocketing flour prices have destabilized Pakistan, which wasn't exactly tranquil when flour was affordable.

Biofuels do slightly reduce dependence on imported oil, and the ethanol boom has created rural jobs while enriching some farmers and agribusinesses. But the basic problem with most biofuels is amazingly simple, given that researchers have ignored it until now: using land to grow fuel leads to the destruction of forests, wetlands and grasslands that store enormous amounts of carbon.

I propose rotating which states hold the first primaries and caucuses to reduce the harm that pandering to Iowa does to our financial and environmental health.

By the way, is it really true that "The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year"?