All I can add is a tired yeah.  A Canadian study I can't relocate indicates that all the land in the US isn't enough to provide an ethenol replacement for it's current consumption of oil.  Nobody seems to give much thought to how much fossil fuel goes into the biochemical features of industrial agriculture.

Brazil's sugarcane makes it the largest exporter of ethanol, but then the laterite soils exposed by the 12 acres of Tropical forests going down every eight seconds or so in the tropical forest band around the planet -- never mind the 137 species a day disappearing -- don't really offer much promise of help either, not to mention the other detriments cited in the diary.  

Brazil's ethanol push could eat away at Amazon: U.N. official voices his concerns ahead of energy visit by Bush

Brazil: Environmental Issues

Rainforest Facts

Neoliberalism may be the primary meme for cultural insanity.

"I would pillow myself on the stream, for I'd like to cleanse my ears" - Sun Chu (218-293) Chinese recluse