text: Ethanol: And yet it is old news that we get 1.1 units of energy from corn ethanol for every 1 unit of fossil energy spent to create it (energy return ratio),  and it displaces crops for human consumption. 
  The misogynist minister who slandered her with an airhead epithet was off base, but I now see it was not baseless. Corn ethanol is not good for the environment, or people, or small engines, but it is good for the special interests who now benefit from it.