Iowa has a whole bunch of corn & is the home of the Iowa Caucus. If you make the people of Iowa happy by pushing laws and regulations that will result in the growing demand of their product... they end up liking you. Very important if you want to win your party's support. Iowa Corn Growers have Republicans & Democrats by the short-n-curlies. Why do you think everything is sweetened by High Fructose CORN Syrup instead of sugar from sugar canes? I can go on and on, but I'll just let you guys figure it out. Do some reading. E85 is more about politics than about saving the environment. Instead of a sideways move from gasoline to ethanol... regulations should be designed to push real alternative methods.