World to suffer corn shortage as ethanol demand increases {Autoblog Green}

Jun 8th 2007 2:29AM The reason this is bad, is because in order to meet the government demands of ethanol, the government is giving large subsidies to the farmers to grow yellow corn for ethanol production. Therefore, it becomes more lucrative for a farmer to grow ethanol corn rather than human consumption corn. As a manufacturer of corn tortillas, I now have to offer much larger premiums to the farmers to grow white corn for tortilla production. This drastically increases my costs and is past along to the consumer. The end result is higher prices on your restaurant dinner plate or at the grocery store. This is the same for corn/tortilla chips, soda (sweetened with corn syrup), cereal, eggs, meat etc, etc, etc. In the end, we will never be able to generate enough ethanol to really make a difference, and we should focus our efforts on other technologies such as hydrogen.