I agree that ethanol is a bad deal, and that Obama's support smells of favors owed to agribusiness.

However, I still believe that his candidacy offers greater hope for the future than a continuation of enslavement to neoconservative orthodoxy.

We need radical change, a whole lot of it, immediately if not sooner. And we are NOT going to get as much change as we need, because (as LH pointed out) "the Democrats and Republicans are the two halves of a great big phony oligarchy."

But they're not identical halves. I'll throw my support to the side whose Big Money supporters are mostly in the entertainment and software indistries rather than invested in continued dependence upon fossil fuels.