Biggest problems with Ethanol are twofold - 1) the amount of rainforest being felled to grow the plants from which it is extracted .....
Having been following the Malaysian Borneo de-forestation to produce this stuff I cannot but agree.
Indeed. The correct answer to the problem of reducing fossil fuel usage is to reduce fossil fuel usage, not to come up with even more environmentally-damaging alternatives that encourage people to carry on as if there's no problem.