the U.S. corn crop is converted into ethanol which is then fed into cars. When the crop slumps this proportion is likely to rise. For a drought and a shortage of corn is not going to do much to change driving habits. But still, despite that shortage of corn the gasoline allowable for sale has to be blended with ethanol." The insanity of our federal government continuing to demand that corn be turned into fuel is brought home even more directly when you consider that the head of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization argued that it is lifting the grain price worldwide even before the drought.   These price rises are particularly impactful in areas that depend upon grains for basic survival. All courtesy of a big, all knowing U.S. government that for the past three decades has chosen to promote the burning of corn as a bio-fuel solution to our energy needs at a cost of $45 billion over the last 30 years.  In 2011 alone corn ethanol subsidies ate up $6 billion in taxpayer dollars. Contrast this with Brazil, where it wasn't the government which drove the bio-fuel industry, it was the private sector.  With abundant sugar cane to easily turn into bio-fuel, Brazilians drive flex fuel vehicles that burn both traditional oil or sugarcane ethanol. Why did this occur in Brazil, but not in the United States? First and foremost, sugar cane grows in abundance in Brazil, making it a readily available bio-fuel crop. However, U.S.