What ever idea/theory you believe in you can always find the media to support it. To say that ethanol is not responsible or not is both right and wrong. To grow corn you have to use diesel driven farm machinery, fertilizer which is petroleum based which keep demand for petroleum high. The feedstock cost more because the supply is less causing higher prices in meats, egg, milk, etc....Everything else cost more because transportation cost skyrocketed due to high fuel prices. High fuel prices mainly caused by worldwide demand, the dollar lost value and those doggone speculators that keep speculating the prices to the point of crashing our economy.