Comment: Mr. Calder:  I agree.  The entire corn-based ethanol industry is one big scam.  It is not effective as a subtituteadditive for gasoline.  It is very expensive to produce.  As you say, it depletes the soil and depends entirely on petrochemical fertilizers.  And it takes millions of acres of farmland out of food production and has a huge detrimental impact of the commodities market.  The use of more and more pesticides is just a little "bonus."  We live in the country and a neighbor keeps 24 hives on our land.  He tells stories of beekeepers being completely wiped out as their hives were killed by such pesticides.  We're capable of being such damn fools.  Gary Crum