increasing the likelihood of an international food crisis. To avert this potential catastrophe, the Obama Administration should immediately rescind all ethanol fuel requirements, and Congress should deny any funding for government programs that pick winners and losers in alternative fuels production. It is truly a sad legacy that after thirty years and 45 billion dollars, the only thing that has really been gained through the corn ethanol experiment are hundreds of millions of hungry people around the world, and the retardation in the development of alternative, more efficient, domestically grown bio-fuels. Eric Hovde is the principal of Hovde Capital, and a former U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin. As frequent visitors of this site know, we have been focused like a hawk on Michigan's Proposal 4- the SEIU's heavy-handed attempt to unionize all ... jp yahoo I was once called and asked if I ever went to bed hungry. I answered I had once or twice and a few nights later I heard Peter Jennings say millions of Americans go to bed hungry. I realized the ploy behind the question. Be careful about what the liberals say. FloridaJim Ethanol has been a huge scam from the beginning given to democrats in farm states along with farm subsidies as rewards for their votes. The truth is ethanol made with sugar cane is much less costly and much less harsh on the auto engine. With the oil and gas reserves in America we don't need to rob our families of food to make