My heart is invested in sustainable, organic, healthful ideas but the PR never matches the plans. In America lobbyists set policy and BigAg Monsanto-Gates-Bayer et al have subsidized, patent protected gmo crops as the foundation to "green energy" policy.

There's no cost benefit analysis where converting food crops to renewable energy, which is what Ethanol market is accounts for reduced food supply. Nor does crop contamination factor the impact on human health when food crops have been genetically modified to suit industrial applications not life forms. Beyond those costs are the subsidy scams that are nothing more than corporate welfare and BigAg is a heavyweight like Pharma.

Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study in Corporate Welfare September 26, 1995 • Policy Analysis No. 241 By James Bovard

At least 43 percent of ADM’s annual profits are from products heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every $1 of profits earned by ADM’s corn sweetener operation costs consumers $10, and every $1 of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers $30. https://web.archive.org/web/20210506232642/https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/archer-daniels-midland-case-study-corporate-welfare