Corn Ethanol is an inefficient, environmentally harmful, impractical fuel that will not increase US

Sorry about the forfeit, I assumed I had more time.Since I failed my previous argument and do not want to re-write it, I will argue for round 3 and you can just feel proud about your arguments." Putting aside the fact that anthropogenic global warming is still largely n doubt and is probably not true if one looks at balanced, unbiased, and uncorrupted data, as well as the fact the the Department of Energy has a definite anti-fossil fuel agenda, this is not true in the long run."Could you please provide some sources, I would love to use them in my argument against global warming." Ethanol is not as fuel efficient as gasoline (essentially, a car that gets 26 mpg with regular gasoline would get only 17 mpg on ethanol); you need to burn one and one half gallons of ethanol to get the same Btu rating as one gallon of gasoline; and the ethanol refining process itself uses far more GHG than oil drilling/refining. Therefore, ethanol almost certainly results in the emission of more GHG in the long run, especially considering things like the fact that ethanol must be trucked as opposed to pipelined, etc."That is some pretty crazy stuff you just said, and I don't have a clue as to what you are talking about. I don't think I have the patients to research your claims, so I'm just going to rant you off. 1) I do not regard the statementsYou said all I gotta do is argue ethanol is efficient, not that its "as fuel efficient as gasoline".Granted the information is true, you may have debunked one of my points but I still have another one. Corn Ethanol comes form a renewable energy source and is made from corn(which taste good with butter I may have you know), therefore it is efficient."Ethanol certainly does increase the value of corn, and that is a decidedly bad thing. Since the US supplies a large portion of the world's corn, and since even 15 billion gallons of ethanol will and has consumed over 40 percent of that crop, food prices around the world will rise. With the increase of ethanol in gasoline in late 2006 due to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) mandate, the price of corn rose from $2.80/bushel to $4.20/bushel. Neighboring Mexico, who imports 80% of its corn from the US, experienced a doubling in the price of tortilla flour, a staple for poorer families." My source for the information that corn ethanol had economic benefits, said it benefited the U.S. but not the poor mexican families. If you want to argue the morals of the situation, go ahead."About energy security: in 2005 the US harvested 280 million metric tons of corn. The University of MInnesota states that if all of that corn were converted to ethanol, it would displace merely 12 of the national demand for gasoline. To continue to feed the nation and replace a paltry 10 % of gasoline needs, we would need to plant an additional 55 million acres of corn, likely this need would be greater since this land would not be of the best quality. Additionally, much of this land would have to come from the deforestation and conversion to farmland of forested areas." Hypothetical situation, I refuse to accept it.I won't be able to respond to the next argument in 3 days so expect a forfeit.